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03337aam a2200409 i 4500 001 5B1F206A527411EC8E4D38A14AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211201010015 008 200630s2021 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020029608 020 $a 0190491604 020 $a 9780190491604 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a NX650.R84 $b O78 2021 082 00 $a 720 $2 23 100 1 $a Orvell, Miles, $e author. 245 10 $a Empire of ruins : $b American culture, photography, and the spectacle of destruction / $c Miles Orvell. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xii, 265 pages : $b illustrations (chiefly color) ; $c 27 cm 520 $a "Once symbols of the past, ruins have become ubiquitous signs of our future. Americans today encounter ruins in the media on a daily basis--images of abandoned factories and malls, toxic landscapes, devastating fires, hurricanes, and floods. In this sweeping study, Miles Orvell offers a new understanding of the spectacle of ruins in US culture, exploring how photographers, writers, painters, and filmmakers have responded to ruin and destruction, both real and imaginary, in an effort to make sense of the past and envision the future. Empire of Ruins explains why Americans in the nineteenth century yearned for the ruins of Rome and Egypt and how they portrayed a past as ancient and mysterious in the remains of Native American cultures. As the romance of ruins gave way to twentieth-century capitalism, older structures were demolished to make way for grander ones, a process interpreted by artists as a symptom of America's "creative destruction." In the late twentieth century, Americans began to inhabit a perpetual state of ruins, made visible by photographs of decaying inner cities, derelict factories and malls, and the waste lands of the mining industry. This interdisciplinary work focuses on how visual media have transformed disaster and decay into spectacles that compel our moral attention even as they balance horror and beauty. Looking to the future, Orvell considers the visual portrayal of climate ruins as we face the political and ethical responsibilities of our changing world. A wide-ranging work by an acclaimed urban, cultural, and photography scholar, Empire of Ruins offers a provocative and lavishly illustrated look at the American past, present, and future"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a Ruins in art. 650 0 $a Ruined buildings $v Pictorial works. 650 0 $a Ruined buildings $x Social aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Arts and society $z United States. 650 7 $a Arts and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00817856 650 7 $a Ruined buildings. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01101204 650 7 $a Ruins in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01101205 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Pictorial works. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423874 776 08 $i Online version: $a Orvell, Miles. $t Empire of ruins $d New York : Oxford University Press, [2021] $z 9780190491628 $w (DLC) 2020029609 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20211201010734.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5B1F206A527411EC8E4D38A14AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search