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|a Orvell, Miles
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|a Empire of ruins
|h Elektronische Ressource
|b American culture, photography, and the spectacle of destruction
|c Miles Orvell
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|a New York, NY
|b Oxford University Press
|c 2021, 2021
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|a 280 pages
|b illustrations (black and white, and colour)
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|a Includes bibliographical references and index
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|a Ruined buildings / Pictorial works
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|a Ruins in art
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|a Ruins in literature
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|a Oxford University Press
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|a Oxford scholarship online / Oxford scholarship online
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|a Also issued in print: 2021
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|u https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190491604.001.0001?nosfx=y
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|a 'Empire of Ruins' explores the meaning of ruins in American culture, from the mid-nineteenth century to the twenty-first century, arguing that photographs have been the chief means by which the significance of ruins has been created in American culture. The book traces a historical argument that begins in the nineteenth century, when Americans yearned for the ruins of Europe, then moves to the discovery of Native American ruins in the Southwest. Later chapters explore the visualization of inner city ruins, abandoned factories, and shopping malls, and the 'creative destruction' of buildings in order to make way for bigger ones
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