Urban explorers find the beauty layers of history, multi-hued peeling paint, antique objects, ancient initials in the dust and the other physical manifestations of memory that abandoned, impermanent urban spaces manifest.

A teenage girl who makes everything she touches rot learns to find the beautyand power in her life-altering ability.

Join us on a journey through the zone . . . The aim of this photo book is to poignantly portray the desolate and haunting beauty found in the decaying ruins of Chernobyl, which nature is slowly reclaiming. It consists of three hundred carefully selected photos, taken by the authors on two trips to the zone of alienation in the summer of 2018 and autumn of 2020. Also included are numerous interesting facts related to the various locales explored within.

The first thorough study of the Italian filmmaker, Luchino Visconti.

A haunting collection of images from photographer Simon Sugden revealing the beauty in decaying buildings around Britain.

The Beauty of Decay explores the connection of creation in various forms, and its resilience, or destruction, as part of life's cycle.Humanity, art, music, the universe. All of these share beauty, strength, and vulnerability. Some stand the test of time, while others become memories, or are simply forgotten.

"In 'The Ruins Lesson,' the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet-critic Susan Stewart explores the West's fascination with ruins in literature, visual art, and architecture, covering a vast chronological and geographical range from the ancient Egyptians to T. S. Eliot. In the multiplication of images of ruins, artists, and writers she surveys, Stewart shows how these thinkers struggled to recover lessons out of the fragility or our cultural remains. She tries to understand the appeal in the West of ruins and ruination, particularly Roman ruins, in the work and thought of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, whom she returns to throughout the book. Her sweeping, deeply felt study encompasses the founding legends of broken covenants and original sin; Christian transformations of the classical past; the myths and rituals of human fertility; images of ruins in Renaissance allegory, eighteenth-century melancholy, and nineteenth-century cataloguing; and new gardens that eventually emerged from ancient sites of disaster"--