Title & Author:

The art of forgetting / edited by Adrian Forty and Susanne Küchler.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1999.

Description:

xiii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Series:

Materializing culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index.
Preface / David Lowenthal -- Introduction / Adrian Forty -- pt. I. Ephemeral monuments. 1. Ephemeral monuments, memory and royal sempiternity in a grassfields kingdom / Nicolas Argenti ; 2. The place of memory / Susanne Küchner -- pt. II. Remembering and forgetting in images past. 3. Girodet's Portrait of Citizen Belley, ex-representative of the colonies: in Rembrance of 'Things sublime' / Helen Weston ; 4. Bribing the vote of fame: eighteenth century monuments and the futility of commemoration / David Bindman ; 5. Forgetting Rome and the voice of Piranesi's 'Speaking ruins' / Tarnya Cooper -- pt. III. War memorials. 6. Remember to forget: sublimation as sacrifice in war memorials / Michael Rowlands ; 7. Remembering and forgetting in the public memorials of the Great War / Alex King ; 8. Commemorating 1916, celebrating difference: parading and painting in Belfast / Neil Jarman -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary:

"In tracing the process through which monuments give rise to collective memories, this path-breaking book emphasizes that memorials are not just inert and amnesiac spaces upon which individuals may graft their ever-shifting memories. To the contrary, the materiality of monuments can be seen to elicit a particular collective mode of remembering which shapes the consumption of the past as a shared cultural form of memory." "Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary in scope, this book fills this gap and addresses topics ranging from material objects to physical space; from the contemporary to the historical; and from 'high art' to memorials outside the category of art altogether. In so doing, it represents a significant contribution to an emerging field."--Jacket

ISBN:

1859732860
9781859732861
1859732917
9781859732915

Subject:

Memory.
Memorials.
73.85 cultural psychology.
21.59 sculpture: other.
Gedenktekens.
Collectief geheugen.

Added entries:

Forty, Adrian, 1948-
Küchler, Susanne.
Materializing culture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 203668
Call No.: BF371.A65 1999
Status: Available