Formes de la ruine. Préhistoire In the gallery of portraits

In the gallery of portraits brought together in Plutarch's Parallel Lives

constantly searching

with spaces structured by interlacing sinuous lines

List of signatures and reproduction of the reverse in the text

Formes de la ruine. Préhistoire In the gallery of portraitsThe book The Forms of Ruin aims to establish a dialogue between all types of ruins. It investigates both the centuries old traditions that have allowed the emergence of a culture of monumental ruins that has become dominant in the West and the East, and those of societies that are ignorant of the very notion of a monument. All forms of ruin practices are brought together, whether it be the collection of fragments of human activity on and in the