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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This pompous nonsense was not at all what I expected from Woodward, given he often produces brilliant work. This was supposed to be about why ruins are important, why we are attracted to memory, our past and belonging. Instead it was a mish mash of tenuously connected quotes from famous authors and the like who had been to ruins. Little analysis and little impact. A real shame. (  ) notmyrealname | Oct 19, 2008 |  A great little book on why we are fascinated with ruins. They tell us not just about our past, but perhaps also about our future. If Rome could fall, it's a simple reach to believe that our great cities could also fall. (  ) dmzach | Jan 27, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0375421998, Hardcover)In this elegant, provocative book, the brilliant young art-historian Christopher Woodward looks back to the start of the cult in the eighteenth century, when follies were built in English landscape gardens, artists and writers thrilled to Rome's poetry of decay, and in Paris the great chef Careme even served desserts shaped like classical ruins. He takes us from Troy and Pompei; to Sicilian palaces and Nazi fantasies, and whirls us forward to modern times - to the shattered Statue of Liberty in Planet of the Apes, to Florida's Museum of Natural Phenomena, designed as a court-house dumped upside-down by a hurricane and to Chelsea Flower Show's brand-new "Millennium Ruin." (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:18 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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