Introduction

“Ruins Lust”, the name of a 2014 Tate Britain exhibition and the subject of a growing number of academic publications, may be fashionable, but it is far from new: meditations on the ravages of time or narratives of destruction – through wars, divine intervention or natural forces – may be found fro...

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Glavni autor: Ibata, Hélène
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jezik:Anglais
Izdano: Interfaces 2023
Online pristup:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sažetak:“Ruins Lust”, the name of a 2014 Tate Britain exhibition and the subject of a growing number of academic publications, may be fashionable, but it is far from new: meditations on the ravages of time or narratives of destruction – through wars, divine intervention or natural forces – may be found from Mesopotamian city laments and Hebrew scriptures to 19th-century warnings about the fate of modern empires. Early modern Europe, in particular, found in the ruins of Rome, and then those of Greece...