书名：Alexandria: Past Futures / 亚历山大港：过去的未来
定价：398.0
ISBN：9780300270181
作者：Quertinmont
版次：1
出版时间：2023-01

内容提要：

书 名：Alexandria: Past Futures / 亚历山大港：过去的未来

作 者：John Guy

出 版：Mercatorfonds ，2023

ISBN :   978-0300270181

装 帧：平装，240页

尺 寸：20.32 x 1.91 x 26.04 cm

由亚历山大大帝于公元前331年建立，亚历山大的独特城市、政治和宗教组织结构，伴随着众多的科学创新和哲学思想的发展，使这座城市成为了古代世界的文明中心之一。本书位于艺术与历史的交汇处，重新审视了昔日的埃及大都市亚历山大，旨在超越对该城市的传统描绘——即仅聚焦于希腊人、埃及人、灯塔和图书馆——而是带领读者踏上一场探索之旅，深入这座充满细微差别的古城。

近期的几项发现使我们得以完善对这座失落之城亚历山大的认知。通过考察城市的多层时间性，本书回应了关于亚历山大作为一座城市的主流叙述，即过去的连续文明和政治形态（拜占庭、阿拉伯、现代）曾在这座城市中预演了对未来的愿景，这些未来要么已不复存在，要么仍通过亚历山大的遗留物质文化和建筑环境被人所感知。此外，本书还展示了一系列当代艺术作品，这些作品与书中所涵盖的主题形成了批判性和诗意性的关联。

Founded in 331 BC by Alexander the Great, Alexandria’s unique urban, political and religious organization evolved alongside the numerous scientific innovations and philosophical expressions that shaped the city into one of the ancient world’s civilizational centres. Located at the intersection of art and history, this book revisits the former Egyptian megapolis of Alexandria with the aim of going beyond the usual depictions of the city – focusing on the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Lighthouse and the Library – to take a journey of discovery into an ancient city that is full of nuance.
 
Several recent discoveries have enabled us to refine our knowledge of the lost city of Alexandria. By examining the city’s multi-layered temporalities, this book echoes dominant accounts of Alexandria as a city through which successive civilisations and political formations of the past (Byzantine, Arab, Modern) have rehearsed visions of futures that are either no longer present or remain felt through Alexandria’s remaining material culture and built environment. This book also features a series of contemporary artworks which develop a critical and poetic association with the themes it covers.