Empire of Ruins: American Culture, Photography, and the Spectacle of Destruction

ISBN-13: 9780190491604 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 280 str.

Miles Orvell

Recenzje

Empire of Ruins is about image-making; about ruins as motifs for various kinds of specialist or popular media...Orvell's book arrives at a moment when understanding the history, the lure, and the critical potential of ruin images will most certainly not become less urgent.

O autorze

Miles Orvell is Professor of English and American Studies at Temple University. He is the author of The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940, American Photography (OUP, 2003), and The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community. Orvell received the Bode-Pearson Prize for lifetime achievement from the American Studies Association.