The Ruins Lesson. Meaning and Material in Western Culture

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Notes

1. Bahrani et al. 2011; and Hill 2019.

2. Makarius 2004; and Schleis et al. 2017.

3. Barbanera 2009; and Schnapp 2014.

4. Schnapp 2018; and Somhegyi 2020, chapter 4.

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Zoltán Somhegyi

Zoltán Somhegyi is a Hungarian art historian holding a Ph.D. in aesthetics and a Habilitation (venia legendi) in philosophy, and is Associate Professor of art history at the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary. As a researcher, he is specialised in eighteenth-nineteenth century art and theory, and besides that his other fields of interest are contemporary fine arts and art criticism. He is Secretary General and Website Editor of the International Association for Aesthetics. His recent books are Reviewing the Past. The Presence of Ruins (London – New York: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020), Aesthetics in Dialogue. Applying Philosophy of Art in a Global World (Berlin, Peter Lang, 2020; co-edited with Max Ryynänen), Learning from Decay. Essays on the Aesthetics of Architectural Dereliction and Its Consumption (Berlin, Peter Lang, 2018; co-authored with Max Ryynänen) and Retracing the past. Historical conti- nuity in aesthetics from a global perspective – 19th Yearbook of the International Association for Aesthetics (Santa Cruz, California: International Association for Aesthetics, 2017; editor and contributor). www.zoltansomhegyi.com