Salvatore Settis

If Venice Dies

Übersetzer: Naffis-Sahely, André

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A passionate, eloquent plea to save the soul of the world's greatest architectural treasures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Vessel PR
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 134mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 174g
• ISBN-13: 9781939931375
• ISBN-10: 1939931371
• Artikelnr.: 44582463

Autorenporträt

Salvatore Settis is an archaeologist and art historian who has directed the Getty Research Institute of Los Angeles and the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. He is chairman of the Louvre Museum's Scientific Council. Considered the conscience of Italy for his role in spotlighting its neglect of the national cultural heritage, Settis’s name has been mentioned frequently for the post of minister of culture and Italian president. He is the author of several books on art history as well as a regular contributor to major Italian newspapers and magazines.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Forgetful Athens
2 A Venice without Venetians
3 The Invisible City
4 Toward Chongqing
5 The Language of Skyscrapers
6 The Forma Urbis: Aesthetic Redemption
7 How Much Is Venice Worth?
8 The Paradox of Conservation, the Poetics of Reutilization
9 Replicating Venice
10 History’s Supermarket
11 The Truth of the Simulacrum
12 Borders
13 The Right to the City
14 Civic Capital” and the Right to Work
15 Spaceships of Modernity
16 Venice and Manhattan
17 The Architect’s Ethics: Hippocrates and Vitruvius
18 Venice: A Thinking Machine