Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226571580 ISBN 13: 9780226571584

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2004

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NELSON, R. S. / M. OLIN, EDS. MONUMENTS AND MEMORY, MADE AND UNMADE. CHICAGO, IL, 2003, viii 345 p.,figuras. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

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Examining how monuments preserve memory, these essays demonstrate how phenomena as diverse as ancient drum towers in China and ritual whale killings in the Pacific Northwest serve to represent and negotiate time.

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How do some monuments become so socially powerful that people seek to destroy them? After ignoring monuments for years, why must we now commemorate public trauma, but not triumph, with a monument? To explore these and other questions, Robert S. Nelson and Margaret Olin assembled essays from leading scholars about how monuments have functioned throughout the world and how globalization has challenged Western notions of the "monument."

Examining how monuments preserve memory, these essays demonstrate how phenomena as diverse as ancient drum towers in China and ritual whale-killings in the Pacific Northwest serve to represent and negotiate time. Connecting that history to the present with an epilogue on the World Trade Center, Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade is pertinent not only for art historians but for anyone interested in the turbulent history of monuments—a history that is still very much with us today.

Contributors:
Stephen Bann, Jonathan Bordo, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Jas Elsner, Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Robert S. Nelson, Margaret Olin, Ruth B. Phillips, Mitchell Schwarzer, Lillian Lan-ying Tseng, Richard Wittman, Wu Hung

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0226571580
• ISBN 13: 9780226571584
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 354
• Herausgeber: Nelson Robert S., Olin Margaret