Title & Author:

Monuments and memory, made and unmade / edited by Robert S. Nelson and Margaret Olin.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Description:

viii, 345 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I: Travel. Scaling the cathedral: Bourges in John Bargrave's travel journal for 1645 / Stephen Bann ; Retrieving the past, inventing the memorable: Huang Yi's visit to the Song-Luo monuments / Lillian Lan-Ying Tseng ; Tourists, terrorists, and metaphysical theater at Hagia Sophia / Robert S. Nelson ; The moving landscape / Mitchell Schwarzer -- II: Time. Monumentality of time: giant clocks, the drum tower, the clock tower / Wu Hung ; The winter garden and virtual heaven / Margaret Olin ; The keeping place (arising from an incident on the land) / Jonathan Bordo ; Building a marker of nuclear warning / Julia Bryan-Wilson -- III: Destruction/reconstruction. Iconoclasm and the preservation of memory / Jas Elsner ; Archaeology and the monument: an embattled site of history and memory in contemporary India / Tapati Guha-Thakurta ; Local memory and national aesthetics: Jean Pagès's early-eighteenth-century description of the "incomparable" cathedral of Amiens / Richard K. Wittman ; Settler monuments, indigenous memory: dis-membering and re-membering Canadian art history / Ruth B. Phillips -- Epilogue: The rhetoric of monument making: the World Trade Center.

Summary:

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, [this book] 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.

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ISBN:

0226571572 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226571577 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226571580 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780226571584 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Monuments.
Monuments Conservation and restoration.
Historic sites.
Historic sites Conservation and restoration.
Memory Social aspects.
Monuments Conservation et restauration.
Lieux historiques.
Lieux historiques Conservation et restauration.
Mémoire Aspect social.
monuments.
Baudenkmal
Denkmalpflege
Erinnerung
Geschichtlichkeit
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Monumenten.
Historische plaatsen.
Collectief geheugen.
Conservatie.
Sociale aspecten.
Sites historiques Conservation et restauration.
Mémoire collective.
Mémoire collective Aspect social.
Monument.
Site historique.
Protection des sites historiques.
Conservation des monuments.
Mémoire.
Aspect social.
Archéologie.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Nelson, Robert S., 1947-
Olin, Margaret Rose, 1948-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 230016
Call No.: CC135 .M6 2003
Status: External loan