Zoltán Somhegyi

Reviewing the Past (eBook, PDF)

The Presence of Ruins

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Though constantly in decay, ruins continue to fascinate the observer. Their still-standing survival is a loud affirmation of their presence, in which we can admire the struggle against the power of Nature aesthetically manifested during the decay. This volume takes a thematic approach to examining the aesthetics of ruins. It looks at the general aspects of architectural decay and its classical forms of admiration and then turns towards ruins from both classical and contemporary periods, from both Western and non-Western areas, and with examples from "high art" as well as popular culture. Combining the methodologies of art history, aesthetics and cultural history, this book opens up new ways of looking at the phenomenon of ruins.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881861209
• Artikelnr.: 74834302

Autorenporträt

Zoltán Somhegyi (b. 1981) is a Hungarian art historian with a PhD in aesthetics, currently based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates and working as Chair of the Department of Fine Arts of the College of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Sharjah, and from September 2020 he will continue as Associate Professor of Art History at the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I Classical Tendancies
1. The fragile presence of ruins. General aspects of the aesthetics of architectural decay
2. The golden age and fall of ruins
3. In front of ruins
Part II Modern Appearances
4. Ruins in East-West perspective
5. Contemporary ruins. Investigations into a contradiction in terms
6. "Learning from Detroit?" - From materialised dreams to bitter awakening. Aesthetics around decayed shopping malls
Part III When in Works
7. Cracks in the walls
8. Eulogy to the fragment. Artworks and ruination
9. Ruins as context and scenery. Temporal interference as source of aesthetic experience
Part IV Afterlife 10. Mall with lamassu. Imitated decay and aesthetic education in thematic commercial centres
11. What remains of that which has remained? Against the eradication of ruins
12. "Time transformed into Space". Orhan Pamuk and the museums of remembrance