Ruin lust : artists' fascination with ruins, from Turner to the present day / Brian Dillon. artists' fascination with ruins, from Turner to the present day /

The aesthetics of the sublime and the picturesque fuelled the 'ruin lust' of the eighteenth century, but in the nineteenth century ruins also came to represent fears of the decay of civilisation and the destructive effects of industrialisation. In the twentieth century these dystopian visi...

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Main Author: Dillon, Brian, 1969-
Corporate Author: Tate Britain (London)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Tate Publishing, 2014.
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Pilkington Library - Pilkington Main Collection

Shelfmark: 704.944/DIL
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