Beautiful Terrible Ruins : : Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline / / Dora Apel.
Once the manufacturing powerhouse of the nation, Detroit has become emblematic of failing cities everywhere-the paradigmatic city of ruins-and the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora Apel explores a wide array of these images, ra...
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Apel, Dora, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Beautiful Terrible Ruins : Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline / Dora Apel. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (208 p.) : 36 photographs text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Modernity In Ruins -- 1. Ruin Terrors And Pleasures -- 2. Fear And Longing In Detroit -- 3. Urban Exploration: Beauty In Decay -- 4. Detroit Ruin Images: Where Are The People? -- 5. Looking For Signs Of Resurrection -- 6. Surviving In The Postapocalyptic Landscape -- Conclusion: Your Town Tomorrow -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About The Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Once the manufacturing powerhouse of the nation, Detroit has become emblematic of failing cities everywhere-the paradigmatic city of ruins-and the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora Apel explores a wide array of these images, ranging from photography, advertising, and television, to documentaries, video games, and zombie and disaster films. Apel shows how Detroit has become pivotal to an expanding network of ruin imagery, imagery ultimately driven by a pervasive and growing cultural pessimism, a loss of faith in progress, and a deepening fear that worse times are coming. The images of Detroit's decay speak to the overarching anxieties of our era: increasing poverty, declining wages and social services, inadequate health care, unemployment, homelessness, and ecological disaster-in short, the failure of capitalism. Apel reveals how, through the aesthetic distancing of representation, the haunted beauty and fascination of ruin imagery, embodied by Detroit's abandoned downtown skyscrapers, empty urban spaces, decaying factories, and derelict neighborhoods help us to cope with our fears. But Apel warns that these images, while pleasurable, have little explanatory power, lulling us into seeing Detroit's deterioration as either inevitable or the city's own fault, and absolving the real agents of decline-corporate disinvestment and globalization. Beautiful Terrible Ruins helps us understand the ways that the pleasure and the horror of urban decay hold us in thrall. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Arts and society United States History 20th century. Arts and society United States History 21st century. Regression (Civilization) in art. Ruins in art. ART / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110666151 print 9780813574073 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813574097 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813574097 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780813574097.jpg |
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