The Mobile Ruin
The Everyday Life of the Berlin Wall
$110.62
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2026
Summary
The Berlin Wall divided the city for almost three decades before it fell on 9 November 1989. But this symbol of the Cold War has been travelling longer than it stood still. An object that once seemed immovable now wanders around the world in every format from two-tonne slabs to pocket-sized souvenirs.
This collection envisions the atomized and displaced remnants of the Berlin Wall as a mobile ruin with an evolving history. Blake Fitzpatrick and Vid Ingelevics’s photographic investigat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780228026860 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0228026865 |
| Author: | Blake Fitzpatrick, Vid Ingelevics |
| Publisher: | McGill-Queen's University Press |
| Imprint: | McGill-Queen's University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 254mm x 229mm |
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“Beautifully written and intelligently photographed, The Mobile Ruin poses timely questions, tracing a North American obsession with the symbolism of the fall of Berlin Wall, the current trend to solidify and securitize borders around the world, and the paradoxical fetishism of freedom embodied in the wall’s relics.” - Lee Rodney, University of Windsor “The Mobile Ruin transforms documentary into discovery. Part field guide, part elegy, part provocation, this book is a sharp, beautifully argued meditation on memory in motion. Fitzpatrick and Ingelevics show us that the Berlin Wall never stopped falling.” - Justin Jampol, Wende Museum
About The Author
Blake Fitzpatrick
Blake Fitzpatrick (Editor)
Blake Fitzpatrick is professor emeritus in the School of Image Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University, and co-editor of Place Matters: Critical Topographies in Word and Image.
Vid Ingelevics (Editor)
Vid Ingelevics is professor emeritus, School of Image Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University, and a visual artist, writer, and independent curator.
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