If Venice Dies - Softcover

Salvatore Settis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843681544 ISBN 13: 9781843681540

Verlag: Pallas Athene Publishers Ltd, 2018

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A chilling account of the slow agony of Venice as illustrative of a global consumerist epidemic. Richly documented and imbued with deep angst about this supreme urban creation. --Philippe de Montebello, former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Anyone interested in learning what is really going on in Venice should read this book. --Donna Leon, author of My Venice and Other Essays and Death at La Fenice

Reseña del editor

What is Venice worth? To whom does this urban treasure belong? This eloquent book by the internationally renowned art historian Salvatore Settis urgently poses these questions, igniting a new debate about the Pearl of the Adriatic and cultural patrimony at large. Venetiansare increasingly abandoning their hometown - ther's now only one resident for every 140 visitors and Venice's fragile fate has become emblematic of the future of historic cities everywhere as it capitulates to tourists and those who profit from them. In If Venice Dies, a fiery blend of history and cultural analysis, Settis argues that ` hit-and-run' visitors are turning landmark urban setting into shopping malls and theme parks. He warns Western civilisation's prime achievements face impending ruin from mass tourism and global cultural homogenisation. This is passionate plea to secure Venice's future, written with consummate authority, wide-ranging erudition, and elan.

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• Verlag: Pallas Athene Publishers Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1843681544
• ISBN 13: 9781843681540
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 182