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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
[ Old and run down : Experiment in philosophical interpretation]
St. Petersburg: Aleteiia, 2010 208 p Serie: Tela Mysli pbk. 14 x 20 cm ISBN: 9785914193338 Language: Russian
Why do Russians like the old, tumbledown and run down so much? This book describes and explains this inclination for old things as their perception of something special, other. The esthetics of old and worn out is studied on materials of old photographs. The age of things is analyzed not only as an esthetic phenomenon, but also as a special age ethos. (0.225 kg.)
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