Dora Apel

Beautiful Terrible Ruins

Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline

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Produktbeschreibung

Detroit is the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora Apel explores a wide array of these images of ruin, ranging from photography, advertising, and television, to documentaries, video games, and zombie and disaster films. The author shows how, through the aesthetic distancing of representation, the beauty and fascination of these images helps us to cope with the overarching anxieties of our time.    

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9780813574066
• ISBN-10: 0813574064
• Artikelnr.: 41748534

Autorenporträt

DORA APEL is a professor of art history and visual culture and W. Hawkins Ferry Endowed Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art History at Wayne State University in Detroit. She is the author of War Culture and the Contest of Images (Rutgers University Press).   

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Modernity in Ruins
1   Ruin Terrors and Pleasures
2   Fear and Longing in Detroit
3   Urban Exploration: Beauty in Decay
4   Detroit Ruin Images: Where Are the People?
5   Looking for Signs of Resurrection
6   Surviving in the Post-Apocalyptic Landscape
Conclusion: Your Town Tomorrow
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index