Fallen Monuments And Contested Memorials

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1003256074

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Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials by Anonim Pdf

Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials examines how the modification, destruction, or absence of monuments and memorials can be viewed as performative acts that challenge prescribed, embodied narratives in the public realm. Bringing together international, multidisciplinary approaches, the chapters in this volume interrogate the ways in which memorial constructions disclose implicitly and explicitly the proxy battle for public memory and identity, particularly since 2015. Acknowledging the ways in which the past -- which is given agency through monuments and memorials -- intrudes into daily life, this volume offers perspectives from researchers that answer questions about the roles of monuments and memorials as persistent, yet mutable, works whose meanings are not fixed but are, rather, subject to processes of continual re-interpretation. By using monuments and memorials as lenses through which to view race, memory, and the legacies of war, power, and subjugation, this volume demonstrates how these works, and their visible representations of entitlement, possession, control, and authority, can offer the opportunity to pose and answer questions about whose memory matters and what our symbols say about who we are and what we value. Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials is essential reading for scholars and students studying cultural heritage, history, art history, and public history. It will be particularly useful to those with an interest in public monuments and memorials; colonial and post-colonial history; memory studies; and nationalism, race, and ethnic studies.

Author : Juilee Decker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000895940

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Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials by Juilee Decker Pdf

Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials examines how the modification, destruction, or absence of monuments and memorials can be viewed as performative acts that challenge prescribed, embodied narratives in the public realm. Bringing together international, multidisciplinary approaches, the chapters in this volume interrogate the ways in which memorial constructions disclose implicitly and explicitly the proxy battle for public memory and identity, particularly since 2015. Acknowledging the ways in which the past — which is given agency through monuments and memorials — intrudes into daily life, this volume offers perspectives from researchers that answer questions about the roles of monuments and memorials as persistent, yet mutable, works whose meanings are not fixed but are, rather, subject to processes of continual re-interpretation. By using monuments and memorials as lenses through which to view race, memory, and the legacies of war, power, and subjugation, this volume demonstrates how these works, and their visible representations of entitlement, possession, control, and authority, can offer the opportunity to pose and answer questions about whose memory matters and what our symbols say about who we are and what we value. Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials is essential reading for scholars and students studying cultural heritage, history, art history, and public history. It will be particularly useful to those with an interest in public monuments and memorials; colonial and post-colonial history; memory studies; and nationalism, race, and ethnic studies.

Author : Hilton Judin,Faeeza Ballim,Nnamdi Elleh,Sally Gaule,Kelly Gillespie,Ali Khangela Hlongwane,Tara Weber,Eric Itzkin,Arianna Lissoni,Roshan Dadoo,Yasmin Mayat,Brendan Hart,Temba Middelmann,Barbara Morovich,Pauline Guinard,Muchaparara Musemwa,Goolam Vahed
Publisher : Wits University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781776146680

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Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins by Hilton Judin,Faeeza Ballim,Nnamdi Elleh,Sally Gaule,Kelly Gillespie,Ali Khangela Hlongwane,Tara Weber,Eric Itzkin,Arianna Lissoni,Roshan Dadoo,Yasmin Mayat,Brendan Hart,Temba Middelmann,Barbara Morovich,Pauline Guinard,Muchaparara Musemwa,Goolam Vahed Pdf

This edited collection looks at ruins and vacant buildings as part of South Africa’s oppressive history of colonialism and apartheid and ways in which the past persists into the present

Author : Ulrike Capdepón,Sarah Dornhof
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030875053

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Contested Urban Spaces by Ulrike Capdepón,Sarah Dornhof Pdf

This book takes the urban space as a starting point for thinking about practices, actors, narratives, and imaginations within articulations of memory. The social protests and mobilizations against colonial statues are examples of how past injustice and violence keep on shaping debates in the present. Following an interdisciplinary approach, the contributions to this book focus on the in/visibility and affective power of monuments and traces through political, activist, and artistic contestations in different geographical settings. They show that memories are shaped in contact zones, most often in conflict and within hierarchical social relations. The notion of decentered memory shifts the perspective to relationships between imperial centers and margins, remembrance and erasure, nationalistic tendencies and migration. This plurality of connections emerges around unfinished histories of violence and resistance that are reflected in monuments and traces.

Author : Alex von Tunzelmann
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780063081697

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Fallen Idols by Alex von Tunzelmann Pdf

An Economist Best Book of the Year In this timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments, the popular historian and author of Blood and Sand explores the vital question of how a society remembers—and confronts—the past. In 2020, history came tumbling down. From the US and the UK to Belgium, New Zealand, and Bangladesh, Black Lives Matter protesters defaced, and in some cases, hauled down statues of Confederate icons, slaveholders, and imperialists. General Robert E. Lee, head of the Confederate Army, was covered in graffiti in Richmond, Virginia. Edward Colston, a member of Parliament and slave trader, was knocked off his plinth in Bristol, England, and hurled into the harbor. Statues of Christopher Columbus were toppled in Minnesota, burned and thrown into a lake in Virginia, and beheaded in Massachusetts. Belgian King Leopold II was set on fire in Antwerp and doused in red paint in Ghent. Winston Churchill’s monument in London was daubed with the word “racist.” As these iconic effigies fell, the backlash was swift and intense. But as the past three hundred years have shown, history is not erased when statues are removed. If anything, Alex von Tunzelmann reminds us, it is made. Exploring the rise and fall of twelve famous, yet now controversial statues, she takes us on a fascinating global historical tour around North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia, filled with larger than life characters and dramatic stories. Von Tunzelmann reveals that statues are not historical records but political statements and distinguishes between statuary—the representation of “virtuous” individuals, usually “Great Men”—and other forms of sculpture, public art, and memorialization. Nobody wants to get rid of all memorials. But Fallen Idols asks: have statues had their day?

Author : Jennie Hirsh,Isabelle Loring Wallace
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000817324

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Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art by Jennie Hirsh,Isabelle Loring Wallace Pdf

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within contemporary art. Engaging with issues of voice, embodiment, power, and projection, the case studies assembled in this volume span a range of media from painting, sculpture, and photography to installation, performance, architecture, and video. Importantly, they both examine and enact ventriloqual practices, and do so as a means of interrogating and performatively bearing out contemporary conceptions of authorship, subjectivity, and performance. Put otherwise, the chapters in this book oscillate seamlessly between art history, theory, and criticism through both analytical and performative means. Across twelve essays on ventriloquism in contemporary art, the authors, who are curators, historians, and artists, shine light on this outdated practice, repositioning it as a conspicuous and meaningful trend within a range of artistic practices today. This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, media studies, performance, museum/curatorial studies, and theater.

Author : Erika Doss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226159393

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Memorial Mania by Erika Doss Pdf

In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now less the subject of serious inquiry, are temporary memorials: spontaneous offerings of flowers and candles that materialize at sites of tragic and traumatic death. In Memorial Mania, Erika Doss argues that these memorials underscore our obsession with issues of memory and history, and the urgent desire to express—and claim—those issues in visibly public contexts. Doss shows how this desire to memorialize the past disposes itself to individual anniversaries and personal grievances, to stories of tragedy and trauma, and to the social and political agendas of diverse numbers of Americans. By offering a framework for understanding these sites, Doss engages the larger issues behind our culture of commemoration. Driven by heated struggles over identity and the politics of representation, Memorial Mania is a testament to the fevered pitch of public feelings in America today.

Author : John Winfield HALLAM
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:559858519

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Monumental Memorials: Being Designs for Headstones and Mural Monuments by John Winfield HALLAM Pdf

Author : David B. Allison
Publisher : American Association for State and Local History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 1538113732

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Controversial Monuments and Memorials by David B. Allison Pdf

This book addresses tough issues that museum professionals, public historians, and community leaders face with the challenges of competing historical memory, claims of heritage desecration and the ongoing scourge of racism.

Author : Michael J. Kolb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429764929

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Making Sense of Monuments by Michael J. Kolb Pdf

Stonehenge, Machu Picchu, Confederate statues, Egyptian pyramids, and medieval cathedrals: these are some of the places that are the subject of Making Sense of Monuments, an analysis of how the built environment molds human experiences and perceptions via bodily comparison. Drawing from recent research in cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and semiotics, Michael J. Kolb explores the mechanics of the mind, the material world, and the spatialization process of monumental architecture. Three distinct spatial-cognitive metaphors—time, movement, and scale—comprise strands of knowledge that when interwoven create embodied contours of meaning of how human interact with monumental spaces. Comprehensive, lucidly written, and thoroughly illustrated, Making Sense of Monuments is a vibrant, extraordinary journey of the monuments we have constructed and inhabited.

Author : Sir Lawrence Weaver
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 129023034X

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Memorials and Monuments Old and New by Sir Lawrence Weaver Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Lucienne Thys-Şenocak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317149071

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Divided Spaces, Contested Pasts by Lucienne Thys-Şenocak Pdf

The Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey was the site of one of the most tragic and memorable battles of the twentieth century, with the Turks fighting the ANZAC (Australian New Zealand Army Corps) and soldiers from fifteen other countries. This book explores the history of its landscape, its people, and its heritage, from the day that the defeated Allied troops of World War One evacuated the peninsula in January 1916 to the present. It examines how the wartime heritage of this region, both tangible and intangible, is currently being redefined by the Turkish state to bring more of a faith-based approach to the secularist narratives about the origins of the country. It provides a timely and fascinating look at what has happened in the last century to a landscape that was devastated and emptied of its inhabitants at the end of World War One, how it recovered, and why this geography continues to be a site of contested heritage. This book will be a key text for scholars of cultural and historical geography, Ottoman and World War One archaeology, architectural history, commemorative and conflict studies, European military history, critical heritage studies, politics, and international relations.

Author : Christian Jankowski,Nora Moschüring
Publisher : Walther Konig Verlag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Community arts projects
ISBN : 386335446X

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Heavy Weight History by Christian Jankowski,Nora Moschüring Pdf

This title provides a comprehensive retrospective of Jankowski's work to date and presents almost all his pieces from the years 1992-2013 in chronologigal order.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004512986

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Heritage, Contested Sites, and Borders of Memory in the Asia Pacific by Anonim Pdf

Contests over heritage in Asia are intensifying and reflect the growing prominence of political and social disputes over historical narratives shaping heritage sites and practices, and the meanings attached to them. These contests emphasize that heritage is a means of narrating the past that demarcates, constitutes, produces, and polices political and social borders in the present. In its spaces, varied intersections of actors, networks, and scales of governance interact, negotiate and compete, resulting in heritage sites that are cut through by borders of memory. This volume, edited by Edward Boyle and Steven Ivings, and with contributions from scholars across the humanities, history, social sciences, and Asian studies, interrogates how particular actors and narratives make heritage and how borders of memory shape the sites they produce.

Author : Matthew Fraser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781633888111

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Monumental Fury by Matthew Fraser Pdf

Recent years in America have seen Confederate monuments toppled, statues of colonizers vandalized, and public icons commemorating figures from a history of exploitation demolished. Some were alarmed by the destruction, claiming that pulling down public statues is a negation of an entire cultural heritage. For others, statue-smashing is justified vandalism against a legacy of injustice. Monumental Fury confronts the long-neglected questions of our relationship with statues, icons, and monuments in public spaces, providing a rich historical perspective on iconoclastic violence. Organized according to specific themes that provide insights into the erection and destruction of statues — from religion, war, and revolution to colonialism, ideology, art, and social justice — author Matthew Fraser examines the implications of our monuments from the Buddhas of Bamiyan to those of Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Vladimir Lenin, and many more. Above all, the book endeavors to frame moments of statue-toppling throughout history so we can better understand the eruptions of iconoclastic violence that we are witnessing today. Statues are erected as expressions of power, and the impulse to destroy them is motivated by a desire to defy, reject, and eradicate their authority. However, the symbolic power of statues can stubbornly persist even after their destruction. This enduring paradox — between destruction and resurrection – is at the heart of this book. Fraser concludes with reflections that propose new ways of thinking about our relationship with statues and monuments and, more practically, about how we can creatively integrate their legacy into our collective memory in a way that inclusively enriches shared historical experience.