Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice
"As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an elaborate series of roma…
Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice
Killing the moonlight: modernism in Venice
As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an elaborate series of roman…
Killing the moonlight: modernism in Venice
Killing the moonlight: modernism in Venice
Killing the moonlight: modernism in Venice
Spanning the history of literature, art, and architecture--from John Ruskin, Henry James, and Ezra Pound to Manfredo Tafuri, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, and Robert Coover-- Killing the Moonlight tracks the pressures that modernity has placed on the legacy of romantic Veni…
Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice
"As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an elaborate series of roma…