READING THE RUINS: MODERNISM, BOMBSITES AND BRITISH CULTURE
Written by Leo Mellor
Published by Cambridge University Press
in 2011
ISBN: 9781107009295
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READING THE RUINS: MODERNISM, BOMBSITES AND BRITISH CULTURE
Written by Leo Mellor.
Stock no. 2134010
1st.
2011.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Black boards with gilt title to spine. 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 World War II, British culture was already filled with ruins and fragments. ISBN: 9781107009295.
Front cover
Contents
- 1 Imagining destruction
- 2 A metropolis aflame
- 3 Surrealism and the bombsites
- 4 The haunted city
- 5 The new London Jungle
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index