Reading the ruins : modernism, bombsites and British culture / Leo Mellor.
Reading the ruins : modernism, bombsites and British culture / Leo Mellor.
Reading the ruins : modernism, bombsites and British culture / Leo Mellor.
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Publisher
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Date
2011.
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N820.90091/21
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Language
English
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Physical content
ix, 245 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction -- 1. Imagining destruction -- 2. A metropolis aflame -- 3. Surrealism and the bombsites -- 4. The haunted city -- 5. The new London jungle -- Coda.
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Publisher
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2011.
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"From fires to ghosts, and from flowers to surrealist apparitions, the bombsites of London were both unsettling and inspiring terrains. Yet throughout the years prior to the Second World War, British culture was already filled with ruins and fragments. They appeared as content, with visions of tottering towers and scraps of paper; and also as form,...
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Reading the ruins : modernism, bombsites and British culture / Leo Mellor.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-241) and index.
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N820.90091/21
Record Identifier
74Vv80zb3K3M
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv80zb3K3M
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ISBN
1107009294 (hardback)
9781107009295 (hardback)
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820.9/0091
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991014327499702626
