Ruin Lust: exhibit at Tate Britain, London

Ruin Lust, an exhibition at Tate Britain from 4 March 2014, offers a guide to the mournful, thrilling, comic and perverse uses of ruins in art from the seventeenth century to the present day. The exhibition is the widest-ranging on the subject to date and includes over 100 works by artists such as J.M.W. Turner, John Constable, John Martin, Eduardo Paolozzi, Rachel Whiteread and Tacita Dean.

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/ruin-lust

Joseph Mallord William Turner
The Chancel and Crossing of Tintern Abbey, Looking towards the East Window1794
Pencil and watercolour on paper