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  title info:
    title: Sham ruins
    sub title: a user's guide
  name:
    name part: Willems, Brian
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 69 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: In the middle of the 18th century, a new fad found its way into the gardens of England's well-to-do, building fake Gothic ruins. Newly constructed castle towers and walls looked like they were already falling apart, even on the first day of their creation. Made of stone, plaster or even canvas, these "sham ruins" are often considered an embarrassing blip in English architectural history. However, Sham Ruins: A User's Guide expands the specific example of the sham ruin into a general principle to examine the way purposely broken objects can be used both to uncover old truths and invent new ones. Along with architecture, work by Ivan Vladislavić, Tom Stoppard, Alain Mabanckou, Aleksei Fedorchenko, Michael Haneke and Sturtevant is used to develop this thesis, as well as artifacts such as pre-torn jeans, fake histories and broken screen apps. Using these examples, one of the key questions the book raises is what is it that sham ruins ruin? In other words, if real ruins are ruins of what they actually are, then sham ruins should be considered ruins of what they are not. Thus sham ruins are about imposing new meaning where such meaning does not and should not exist. They also can show how things we think are functioning well are actually already broken. Sham ruins do this, and much more, by being lies, ruses and embarrassments. This is what gives them the power with which we can think about objects in new, unintended ways.
  table of contents: Not just ruins -- The potential of the past -- Total replication -- Ruins on fire.
  note: Brian Willems.
  note: "Routledge Focus."
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Truth (Aesthetics)
  subject:
    topic: Artificial ruins
  classification: BH301.T77 W55 2022
  classification: 717
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Routledge focus on literature
  identifier: 9781032081311
  identifier: 1032081317
  identifier: 9781032081359
  identifier: 103208135X
  identifier: 9781003213086
  identifier: 2021042363
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210830
    record change date: 20220406135410.3
    record identifier: in00004561653