Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture

by John Levi Barnard

From the US Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial and the 9/11 Memorial Museum, classical forms and ideas have been central to an American nationalist aesthetic. Beginning with an understanding of this centrality of the classical tradition to the construction of American national identity and the projection of American power, Empire of Ruin describes a mode of black classicism that has been integral to the larger critique of American politics, aesthetics,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190663596
• ISBN13: 9780190663599
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.4"