Lost Cities: Beauty in Desolation - Abandonned Places

This exotic, powerful new book evokes the eerie, haunted places around the world that retain small touches of humanity: a spill of pottery fragments, a car with only one wheel, a battered doll, torn shirts on a washing line, a broken ferris wheel, all of them are shattered dreams that dwell now only in the imagination.

About the author

Dr Julian Beecroft is a writer specializing in art and cultural history. He has written books on Monet, Renoir, Dalí, Kahlo and Art Nouveau. He is also the author of Lost Cities and Secret Cities, as well as a guide to the culture and history of London. He has contributed to the Guardian, the Telegraph, 1843 and The London Magazine.

Summary

This exotic, powerful new book evokes the eerie, haunted places around the world that retain small touches of humanity: a spill of pottery fragments, a car with only one wheel, a battered doll, torn shirts on a washing line, a broken ferris wheel, all of them are shattered dreams that dwell now only in the imagination.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Julian Beecroft, Julian Beecroft
• Assisted by: Flame Tree Studio (Editor)
• Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781786645289
• ISBN: 978-1-78664-528-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 288 mm x 288 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Abandoned; Abandoned Places; Abandoned Places
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Travel > Travel guides > World, Arctic, Antarctic; Travel, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Architectural & Industrial, Places & peoples: pictorial works