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Item Number: 129988
Title: Ruin Lust : Artists' Fascination with Ruins, from Turner to the Present Day
Author: Dillon, Brian
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781849763011
Description: London: Tate Publishing, 2014. 21cm., hardcover, 64pp. illus. Exhibition catalogue. Summary: Why are we fascinated by ruins? They recall the glory of dead civilisations and the certain end of our own. They stand as monuments to historic disasters, but also provoke dreams about futures born from destruction and decay. Ruins are bleak but alluring reminders of our vulnerable place in time and space. For centuries, ruins have attracted artists: among them J.M.W. Turner, Gustave Doré, Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, Patrick Caulf eld, Tacita Dean, and Jane and Louise Wilson. Ruin Lust explores the history of this obsession, from the art of the picturesque in the eighteenth century, through the wreckage of two world wars, to contemporary artists complex attitudes to the ruins of the recent past. (^Out of prints, final copies available^)
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