Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in VeniceColumbia University Press, 25.11.2014 - 472 Seiten As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an elaborate series of romantic clichés, provoking conflicting responses: some modern artists and intellectuals embrace the resistance to modernity manifest in Venice's labyrinthine premodern form and temporality, whereas others aspire to modernize by "killing the moonlight" of Venice, in the Futurists' notorious phrase. |
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Reciprocal Interference of Present and Past in Ruskins Venetian Histories | 43 |
Between Patches and Presence in Jamess Visitable Past | 87 |
Venetian Modernism Between Decadence | 137 |
Material Histories in Pounds Venice | 196 |
Color Plates
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Unbuilt Venices | 260 |
LagunaLacuna | 315 |
Notes | 348 |
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