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How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this question as she traces the appeal of ruins and ruins images, and the lessons that writers and artists have drawn from their haunting forms.
Stewart takes us on a sweeping journey through founding legends of broken covenants and original sin, the Christian appropriation of the classical past, and images of decay in early modern allegory. Stewart looks in depth at the works of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, each of whom found in ruins a means of reinventing his art. Lively and engaging, The Ruins Lesson ultimately asks what can resist ruination—and finds in the self-transforming, ever-fleeting practices of language and thought a clue to what might truly endure.
Stewart takes us on a sweeping journey through founding legends of broken covenants and original sin, the Christian appropriation of the classical past, and images of decay in early modern allegory. Stewart looks in depth at the works of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, each of whom found in ruins a means of reinventing his art. Lively and engaging, The Ruins Lesson ultimately asks what can resist ruination—and finds in the self-transforming, ever-fleeting practices of language and thought a clue to what might truly endure.
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Publisher
University of Chicago PressYear
2020Print ISBN
9780226792200, 9780226632612eBook ISBN
9780226632759Index
Accademia dell’Arcadia, 169, 173–74, 199
Accademia di San Luca (Academy of Saint Luke), 19, 199
Achaean Wall, 285n48
Adam, James, 190, 204, 206, 209, 212, 221, 320n34; Adam style, 208; grand tour of, 199–200; legacy of, 207; ornaments, application of, 207–8; Piranesi presentation style, borrowing of, 208
Adam, Robert, 182, 190–91, 201, 206, 210, 220–21, 318n4, 319n23, 320n29, 320n34, 321n44, 322n51; Adam style, 208; Fantastic Buildings in a Landscape, 212; Fantastic Scenes, 212; grand tour of, 199, 200; historical details, vagueness of, 205; legacy of, 207; Lisbon, rebuilding of scheme, 321n37; ornaments, application of, 207, 208; Piranesi presentation style, borrowing of, 208; Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia, 204
Adoration of the Kings (Botticelli), 76
Adoration of the Kings (Gossart), 123, 125
Adoration of the Magi (Botticelli), 76
Aeneid (Virgil), 41–44, 230–31, 261
aesthetics, 17, 232, 250; of fragment, 233; and ruins, 270; of unfinished, 233
Africa, 309n40
Africa (Petrarch), 68–69
age value: materials, authenticity of, 17; of ruins, 15–17; theory of, 268. See also historical value
Ai, 45, 149
Ainsworth, William, 312n4
Alba, Duke of (a.k.a. Duke of Alva), 142–43, 145
Alberti, Leon Battista, 87, 150, 296n11; Della pittura (De pictura, On Painting), 133, 229...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. MATTER
- II. MARKS
- III. MATER
- IV. MATRIX
- V. MODEL
- VI. MIRRORS
- VII. THE UNFINISHED
- VIII. RESISTING RUIN
- Color Plates
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Photography Credits
- Index