The same razed neighborhood yielded both apocalyptic and elegiac art.

Evidence

Where The Destruction of Lower Manhattan is brusquely apocalyptic, The Sky Socialist is tenderly elegiac—a paean to the Brooklyn Bridge and love letter to the artist’s wife. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 998

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: same urban destruction, opposite artistic temperaments — apocalypse versus elegy as twin registers of ruin.