In Ruins - Softcover

Woodward, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099289555 ISBN 13: 9780099289555

Publisher: Vintage, 2002

Synopsis

Why are we so fascinated by ruins? Woodward looks back to the start of the cult in the 18th century, when follies were built in English landscape gardens. He examines Nazi fantasies, the shattered Statue of Liberty in the film 'Planet of the Apes' and the Chelsea Flower Show's 'Millennium Ruin'.

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Review:

"This book itself is marvellous proof that the prospect of ruins can elicit the finest cadences of the language, whereby a languorous and clamant prose is drawn out of the spectacle of desuetude and decay-In Ruins is a rich and absorbing volume" (Peter Ackroyd The Times)

"Woodward ravishes the reader with the sudden twists and turns of his elegant narrative as it moves in whatever direction he wishes it to go-Woodward's infectious enthusiasm for his subject will send his readers in many new directions" (Frances Spalding Sunday Times)

"Christopher Woodward's paean of praise to the ruin fizzes with felicitous detail, anecdote, literary reference and art history-An enchanting and informative voyage" (Evening Standard)

"An enchanting kaleidoscope of ruins from all times, cultures, and places, is full of stimulating juxtapositions" (Country Life)

Book Description:

‘This book itself is marvelous proof that the prospect of ruins can elicit the finest cadences of the language... a rich and absorbing volume’ Peter Ackroyd, The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0099289555
• ISBN 13: 9780099289555
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288