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How Ruins Acquire Aesthetic Value: Modern Ruins, Ruin Porn, and the Ruin Tradition

Autor Tanya Whitehouse
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 dec 2018
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030030643
ISBN-10: 3030030644
Pagini: 125
Ilustrații: X, 122 p. 27 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2018
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Pivot
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

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.

Notă biografică

Tanya Whitehouse is a philosophy professor and arts student who has taught a variety of university and college philosophy courses, including Aesthetics and the Philosophy and History of Art.  Her research interests include philosophy of music and architecture, environmental aesthetics, and aesthetic judgment and imagination.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

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.

Caracteristici

Discusses how ruins acquire aesthetic value Provides recommendations about what we should do with urban industrial ruins and how we should understand the phenomenon of “ruin porn” Intended for readers interested in aesthetics, architecture, and ruined environments