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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:In Ruinsby Christopher Woodward
Review-a-Day (What is Review-a-Day?)"Woodward has written a book of sensibility, moving back and forth between travel guide, anecdote, personal impressions, autobiography, and art, architectural, and literary history....Woodward has labored hard to find wonderful new observations from travelers, writers, and artists, for which anyone who cares about ruins must be grateful, even if these additions do little to revise the well-established picture of the experience of ruins in the melancholy or picturesque keys." Rochelle Gurstein, The New Republic (read the entire New Reupblic review) Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In this elegant, provocative book, the brilliant young art-historian Christopher Woodward looks back to the start of the cult in the eighteenth century, when follies were built in English landscape gardens, artists and writers thrilled to Rome's poetry of decay, and in Paris the great chef Careme even served desserts shaped like classical ruins. He takes us from Troy and Pompei; to Sicilian palaces and Nazi fantasies; and whirls us forward to modern times — to the shattered Statue of Liberty in Planet of the Apes, to Florida's Museum of Natural Phenomena, designed as a court-house dumped upside-down by a hurricane, and to Chelsea Flower Show's brand-new "Millennium Ruin." Review:"A perceptive British museum director speculates on the significance of architectural ruins for artists, writers, and the rest of us....Rich, allusive, learned, delightful." Kirkus Reviews Review:"Marvellous proof that the prospect of ruins can elicit the finest cadences of the language....A rich and absorbing volume." Peter Ackroyd, The Times Review:"[A] sophisticated aesthetic exploration of ruined buildings and the fascinating hold they have on observers. Woodward readily engages readers with an accessible narrative style....Woodward's work is a languorous delight." Gilbert Taylor, Booklist Review:"Marvellous proof that the prospect of ruins can elicit the finest cadences of the language....A rich and absorbing volume." Peter Ackroyd, The Times (London) Review:"The limited geographical scope doesn't feel constraining, since Woodward's knowledge is so rich and so personally inflected by his own tastes and travels. In Ruins is a smallish book that, if anything, seems too full and busy." David Quammen, The New York Times Book Review About the AuthorChristopher Woodward is Director of the Holburne Museum of Art in Bath. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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