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 au...

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Hlavní autor: Whitehouse, Tanya (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Témata:
Aesthetics.
Cities and towns-History.
Urban planning.
City planning.
Sociology, Urban.
ISBN:9783030030650
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Obsah:
  • 1. Prologue: Ruins, and "Ruin Porn," in American Cities
  • 2. Fascination with Ruins
  • 3. From Blight to Beauty: The Controversial Creation of the First US Industrial-Heritage Park
  • 4. Detroit: New Ruins and Old Problems
  • 5. Resolving Our Judgments: Understanding How Ruins Acquire and Exhibit Aesthetic Value
  • 6. The Ruin-Industrial Aesthetic: Ruins, and Ruin-Like Environments, Acquiring Aesthetic Value
  • 7. Assessing Function and the Ruin Category
  • 8. Epilogue: Ruins Rising from the Ashes.

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