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What is it about ruins that are so alluring, so puzzling, that they can hold some of us in endless wonder over the half-erased story they tell? In this elegant book, Robert Harbison explores the captivating hold these remains and broken pieces—from architecture, art, and literature—have on us. Why are we, he asks, so suspicious of things that are too smooth, too continuous? What makes us feel, when we look upon a fragment, that its very incompletion has a kind of meaning in itself? Is it that ou
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- Author
- Harbison, Robert
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books, Limited
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781780234472
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Architecture, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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