TY - BOOK AU - Dillon,Brian TI - Ruins T2 - Documents of contemporary art SN - 0262516373 AV - NX650.R84 R85 2011 U1 - 709 22 PY - 2011/// CY - London, Cambridge, Mass. PB - Whitechapel Gallery, MIT Press KW - Ruins in art KW - Arts, Modern KW - 20th century KW - 21st century N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-231) and index; Modernity in ruins; The; salon of 1767; Denis Diderot; (1767) ; The; ruin; Georg Simmel; (1911) ; The; pleasures of limestone; Adrian Stokes; (1934) ; A; note on new ruins; Rose Macaulay; (1953) ; The; Arcades Project; Walter Benjamin; (1927-40); Dust; Georges Bataille; (1929); Dust; Celeste Olalquiaga; (1998); Separation and restoration; Susan Stewart; (1996); Theses on the philosophy of history; Walter Benjamin; (1940); Memoirs of the blind; Jacques Derrida; (1990); Towards a new architecture; Le Corbusier; (1923) ; A; tour of the monuments of Passaic, New Jersey; Robert Smithson; (1967); Authentic ruins; Andreas Huyssen; (2006); Architecture dismembered; Anthony Vidler; (1992) ; The; anorexic ruins; Jean Baudrillard; (1989); Obscene homes; Svetlana Boym; (2001); Leptis magna; Geoff Dyer; (2004); Modernist ruins, filmic archaeologies; Giuliana Bruno; (2003); Dorit Margreiter; Barbara Clausen; (2008); Is modernity our antiquity?; Mark Lewis; (2006); Sifting defunct modernity in search of something useful; Martin Herbert; (2009); It was what it was : modern ruins; Gilda Williams; (2010) -- The; military-industrial sublime; A; handful of dust; J.G. Ballard; (2006); Bunker archaeology; Paul Virilio; (1975) ; The; weight of time; James Lingwood; (2002); Sound mirrors; Tacita Dean; (1999) ; The; architecture of life; Darian Leader; (2006) ; The; light gleams an instant; Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith; (2008); Susan Hiller : The J. Street Project; Jörg Heiser; (2005); Walid Raad/The Atlas Group; Mark Beasley; (2006) --; Drosscape; The; crystal land; Robert Smithson; (1966); Invisible cities; Italo Calvino; (1972); Stumped; Eric Schwab and Walead Beshty; (2005); Imaging; Patrick Keiller; (2010) ; The; ruins of memory; Rebecca Solnit; (2007); Circling the centre; Ralph Rugoff; (2006); Lights out for the territory; Iain Sinclair; (1997); Mike Nelson : 24A Orwell Street; Richard Grayson; (2006); Hinterland; Jeremy Millar; (2002); Vera Lutter : spectres of negation; Jonathan Crary; (2004) ; A; victim and a viewer : some thoughts on anticipated ruins; Magali Arriola; (2005) ; The; archivist of urban waste : Zoe Leonard, photographer as rag-picker; Tom McDonough; (2010) -- The; future now; Fernsehturm; Tacita Dean; (2001) ; The; dead town; Martin Herbert; (2005) ; The; utopian past; Lytle Shaw; (2007); Signs of life; J.J. Charlesworth; (2008) ; An; archaeology of the air; Brian Dillion; (2009); Modernologies; Brian Dillion; (2010); Waiting for the future; Nina Power; (2010) N2 - Ruins is one of a series documenting major themes and ideas in contemporary art ER -