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 disa…
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"Apel shows how Detroit has become pivotal to an expanding network of ruin imagery that speaks to the overarching anxieties of our era: increasing poverty, declining wages and social services, inadequate health care, unemployment, homelessness, and ecological disaster - in short…
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 disa…
Albert Speer, Naram-Sîn d'Akkad, Scipion Émilien, Irma Schrader, Shang Yang, Stig Dagerman, Shapur Ier, Bernardo Bellotto... À travers des portraits de vainqueurs, de vaincus ou de simples témoins, ce livre raconte une histoire du monde sous la forme d'un seul et même panorama d…