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This book constructs a theory of ruins that celebrates their vitality and unity in aesthetic experience. Its argument draws upon over 100 illustrations prepared in 40 countries. Ruins flourish as matter, form, function, incongruity, site, and symbol. Ruin underlies cultural values in cinema, literature and philosophy. Finally, ruin guides meditations upon our mortality and endangered world.

Architecture --- Aesthetics --- Ruined buildings --- Antiquities --- aesthetics. --- antiques. --- Antique collecting --- Antiques --- Art --- Collectibles --- Collectors and collecting --- Decoration and ornament --- Decorative arts --- Art objects --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Psychology --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics --- ruins

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Art, Roman --- Roman art --- Classical antiquities --- Art --- Collectibles --- Objets de collection --- History of Germany and Austria --- collecting --- cabinets of curiosities [rooms] --- art collections --- collecting curiosities --- kunstkamer --- anno 1500-1799 --- Europe

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A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men alike crammed their homes full of a bewildering variety of physical objects: antique coins, scientific instruments, minerals, mummified corpses, zoological specimens, plants, ethnographic objects from Asia and the Americas, statues, portraits. Why were these bizarre jumbles of artifacts so popular?In Curiosities and Texts, Marjorie Swann demonstrates that collections of physical objects were central to early modern English literature and culture. Swann examines the famous collection of rarities assembled by the Tradescant family; the development of English natural history; narrative catalogs of English landscape features that began to appear in the Tudor and Stuart periods; the writings of Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick; and the foundation of the British Museum.Through this wide-ranging series of case studies, Swann addresses two important questions: How was the collection, which was understood as a form of cultural capital, appropriated in early modern England to construct new social selves and modes of subjectivity? And how did literary texts-both as material objects and as vehicles of representation-participate in the process of negotiating the cultural significance of collectors and collecting? Crafting her unique argument with a balance of detail and insight, Swann sheds new light on material culture's relationship to literature, social authority, and personal identity.

History of physics --- English literature --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- History of civilization --- anno 1600-1699 --- England --- Antiquarians --- Collectors and collecting --- Curiosities and wonders --- Natural history --- Biography. --- History --- History and criticism. --- Civilization --- Collectibles --- Collecting --- Collection and preservation --- Art --- Hobbyists --- Enigmas --- Facts, Miscellaneous --- Miscellaneous facts --- Oddities --- Trivia --- Wonders --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Biology --- Science --- Cultural Studies. --- European History. --- History. --- Literature. --- World History.

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Collectors and collecting. --- 069.01 --- -Museum techniques --- 069.01 Museologie --- Muséologie --- Collectors and collecting --- Museums --- Museum techniques --- #SBIB:316.7C324 --- Museology --- Collectibles --- Collecting --- Collection and preservation --- Art --- Hobbyists --- Museologie --- Social aspects --- Culturele infrastructuur: musea --- Technique --- sociology --- collectors --- collecting --- museum administration --- Museum techniques. --- Social aspects. --- Collectionneurs et collections --- Musées --- Aspect social --- Applied museology --- Museography --- Museum practices --- Museum studies

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"How effective are election campaign posters? Providing a unique political history, this book traces the impact that these posters - as well as broadsides, banners, and billboards - have had around the world over the last two centuries. It focuses on the use of this campaign material in the United States, as well as in France, Great Britain, Germany, South Africa, Japan, Mexico, and many other countries." "The book examines how posters evolved and discusses their changing role in the twentieth century and thereafter; how technology, education, legislation, artistic movements, advertising, and political systems effected changes in election posters and other campaign media, and how they were employed around the world." "This comprehensive and original overview of this campaign material includes the first extensive review of the research literature on the topic. Posters, Propaganda, and Persuasion will be useful to scholars and students interested in communications, politics, history, advertising and marketing, art history, and graphic design."--Jacket.

Internal politics --- Advertising. Public relations --- World history --- anno 1900-1999 --- Advertising, Political --- Political campaigns --- Political posters --- J4125 --- Campaign posters --- Political collectibles --- Posters --- Campaigns, Election --- Campaigns, Political --- Election campaigns --- Electioneering --- Electoral politics --- Negative campaigns --- Politics, Practical --- Elections --- Advertising in politics --- Political advertising --- Press and politics --- History --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- propaganda