Fantastic State of Ruin by David Zurick

Fantastic State of Ruin by David Zurick

This book tells the story of the painted towns of Shekhawati in rural Rajasthan, India. For centuries, the painted buildings served the towns as trading houses, pleasure palaces, temples, caravansaries, and private homes. Following independence, the descendants of the merchant families left Shekhawati for India's burgeoning cities, abandoning their opulent structures. Some were left in the charge of caretakers; squatters took up residence in many; most simply remain vacant. The buildings have slowly deteriorated over time, ravaged by climate and neglect, and now lie scattered among the desert settlements as an elegiac collection of beautiful living ruins--a crumbling open-air gallery set amid the ordinary affairs of small town life. This book portrays the fascinating ruinous beauty of the painted towns, and, along the way, provides an intimate look at life and landscape on the arid fringes of Rajasthan. This world, too, is fading, and so the book's photographs, in the end, are a visual study of both place and society at the edge of time.

David Zurick is a geographer, writer, and photographer whose interests include political ecology, landscape study, and conservation. He is the author or coauthor of such books as Errant Journeys: Adventure Travel in a Modern Age, Himalaya: Life on the Edge of the World, and Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya. Zurick is Foundation Professor of Geography at Eastern Kentucky University and teaches at the University of Kentucky.

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ISBN 13	9781940743400
ISBN 10	1940743400
Titel	Fantastic State of Ruin
Autor	David Zurick
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Oro Editions
Erscheinungsjahr	2018-10-15
Seitenanzahl	176
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.