El uso de las ruinas. Retratos obsidionales

Synopsis of El uso de las ruinas. Retratos obsidionales

«El uso de las ruinas. Retratos obsidionales» is the essay by Jean-Yves Jouannais published by Acantilado in paperback (144 pages, in Spanish).

The essay explores the fascination that ruins exert on the human imagination and their cultural significance. Through a series of portraits, Jouannais examines how what is ruined becomes image, narrative and experience, and what our way of contemplating what time has destroyed says about us.

Translation by José Ramón Monreal. 144 pages. Published in 2017.

For readers interested in the contemporary essay, philosophy and the relations between art and culture.