RUINS

The ruins of the modern era are the landmarks of recent arts turn toward site and situation, history and memory. The abiding intere st of artists in ruination and decay has led in particular to the concept of the modern ruin--an ambiguous site of artistic and arch itectural modernism, personal and collective memories, and the cultural afterlife of eras such as those of state communism and colon ialism. Contemporary arts explorations of the ruin can evoke on the one hand diverse experiences of nostalgia and on the other a ce aselessly ...[Read more]