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Horror in architecture / Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2023Edition: The reanimated editionDescription: xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781517914844
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Horror in architecture.LOC classification:
  • NA2540 .C65 2023
Contents:
Doubles and Clones -- Exquisite Corpse -- Partially and Mostly Dead -- Reiteration and Reflexivity -- Incontinent Objects -- Trojan Horse -- Homunculism and Gigantism -- Solidity, Mass, Stereotomy -- Distortion and Disproportion -- Blobs -- Puppets -- Insurgent Natures -- Displacement.
Summary: "Horror in Architecture presents an unflinching look at how horror genre tropes manifest in the built environment. Spanning the realms of art, design, literature, and film, this newly revised and expanded edition compiles examples from all areas of popular culture to form a visual anthology of the architectural uncanny, showing how their unsettling effects permeate the modern condition and the material world while deepening our fascination with the unreal"--
Item type: BOOKS
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Doubles and Clones -- Exquisite Corpse -- Partially and Mostly Dead -- Reiteration and Reflexivity -- Incontinent Objects -- Trojan Horse -- Homunculism and Gigantism -- Solidity, Mass, Stereotomy -- Distortion and Disproportion -- Blobs -- Puppets -- Insurgent Natures -- Displacement.

"Horror in Architecture presents an unflinching look at how horror genre tropes manifest in the built environment. Spanning the realms of art, design, literature, and film, this newly revised and expanded edition compiles examples from all areas of popular culture to form a visual anthology of the architectural uncanny, showing how their unsettling effects permeate the modern condition and the material world while deepening our fascination with the unreal"--

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