Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade

Name: Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade
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ISBN: 9780226571584

ISBN-10: 0226571580

ISBN-13: 9780226571584

Edition: 2003

Authors: Robert S. Nelson, Margaret Olin

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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.

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 354
Size: 5.98" wide x 12.87" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Robert Nelson is Robert Lehman Professor of the History of Art and Medieval Art and Architecture at Yale University.

Margaret Olin is a senior research scholar in the Divinity School, with joint appointments in the Departments of History of Art and Religious Studies and in the Program in Judaic Studies at Yale University.



Introduction I: Travel



Scaling the Cathedral: Bourges in




Retrieving the Past, Inventing the Memorable




Tourists, Terrorists, and Metaphysical Theater at Hagia Sophia




The Moving Landscape




Monumentality of Time: Giant Clocks, the Drum Tower, the Clock Tower




The Winter Garden and Virtual Heaven




The Keeping Place Arising from an Incident on the Land




Building a Marker of Nuclear Warning




Iconoclasm and the Preservation of Memory




Archaeology and the Monument: An Embattled Site of History and Memory in Contemporary India Tapati




Local Memory and National Aesthetics: Jean Pagegrave;s's Early-Eighteenth-Century Description of the "Incomparable" Cathedral of Amiens




Settler Monuments, Indigenous Memory: Dis-membering and Re-membering Canadian Art History



Epilogue


The Rhetoric of Monuments: The World Trade Center


List of Contributors


Index