How Ruins Acquire Aesthetic Value: Modern Ruins, Ruin Porn, and the Ruin Tradition
This book provides the first recent philosophical account of how ruins acquire aesthetic value. It draws on a variety of sources to explore modern ruins, the ruin tradition, and the phenomenon of "ruin porn.” It features an unusual and original combination of philosophical analysis, the author's photography, and reviews of both new and historically influential case studies, including Richard Haag's Gas Works Park, the ruins of Detroit, and remnants of the steel industry of Pennsylvania. Tanya Whitehouse shows how the users of ruins can become architects of a new order, transforming derelict sites into aesthetically significant places we should preserve.
122 pages, 2 editions
German edition · First published 2018 by Palgrave Macmillan · ISBN 9783030030643
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2 editions
German
- How Ruins Acquire Aesthetic Value: Modern Ruins, Ruin Porn, and the Ruin Tradition · Palgrave Macmillan · 2018 · ISBN 9783030030643 This page
- How Ruins Acquire Aesthetic Value: Modern Ruins, Ruin Porn, and the Ruin Tradition · Springer International Publishing · 2018 · ISBN 9783030030650
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