Ruiny nieobiecane. Destrukcja i re-konstrukcja łódzkiego modernizmu
Non-promised ruins. Destruction and re-construction of the modernism of Łódź

Author(s): Małgorzata Nieszczerzewska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Architecture, Local History / Microhistory, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: promised land; destruction ruins; vintage culture
Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to answer the question of why we need nineteenth-century architecture today and what the revitalization "game of modernity" in Łódź is all about. The author analyses the issue of the process of modernization of Łódź in the context of multidimensional construction/destruction/re-construction of individual fragments of its space, using primarily the concept of ambiguity and multidimensionality of ruins as a cultural phenomenon. With reference to the novel “the Promised land” written by Władysław Reymont, she emphasizes one of the basic ambivalences of the ruins, referring to their allegorical and spectral nature. Analyzing the process of contemporary re-contextualization of the ruins of Łódź (primarily in the sense of their revitalization and revalorization), the author proposes the use of the term "consumed modernism" and evokes the context of vintage culture.

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