Monumental London

Author : Richard Barras
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031384035

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Monumental London by Richard Barras Pdf

This book presents an original interpretation of the building history of London in terms of its evolving political economy. Each of the seven ages of the city from the Roman to the modern, are portrayed through their monumental buildings, concentrating in particular on their symbolic purpose as expressions of the status and authority of those who built them. The concluding synthesis explores how these successive layers of building can be seen to be a product of the evolving class structure, the changing distribution of wealth, and the shifting struggle for political power within the city and the nation. Although the focus is on London, the analysis is applicable to any urbanized economy at any stage of development. This book offers unique insight into London as a landscape of power and as a city that has assumed a succession of identities over the last two millennia. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in urban economy, economic history, and the political economy.

Author : Ian S. Maloney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135489564

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Melville's Monumental Imagination by Ian S. Maloney Pdf

Melville's Monumental Imagination explores the connection between the contested 19th century American monument tradition and one of the nation's most revered authors, Herman Melville (1819-1891). The book was written to fill a void in recent Melville scholarship. To date, there has not been a monograph that focuses exclusively on Melville's incorporation of monuments in his fictional world. The book charts the territory of Melville's novels in order to provide a trajectory of the monumental image in one particular literary form. This feature allows the reader to gradually see the monumental image as an important marker that sheds light into Melville's eventual abandonment of long fiction. Melville's Monumental Imagination combines literary analysis and cultural criticism for a long neglected aspect of our nation's iconic development in statuary.

Author : Robert Bevan
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781839761898

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Monumental Lies by Robert Bevan Pdf

The past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology upon the physical spaces around us. Holocaust deniers use details of the ruins of the gas chambers Auschwitz to promote their lies: 'No Holes; No Holocaust'. Yet long-standing concepts such as 'authenticity' in heritage are undermined and trivialised by gatekeepers such as UNESCO. At the same, time, opposition to this manipulation is being undermined by cultural ideas that prioritise memory and impressions over history and facts. In Monumental Lies, Robert Bevan argues that monuments, architecture and cities are material evidence of history. They are the physical trace of past events, of previous ways of thinking and of politics, economics and values that percolate through to today. When our cities are reshaped as fantasies about the past, when monuments tell lies about who deserves honour or are destroyed and the struggle for justice forgotten, the historical record is being manipulated. When decisions are based on misinformed assumptions about how the built environment influences our behaviour or we are told, falsely, that certain architectural styles are alien to our cities, or when space pretends to be public but is private, or that physical separation is natural, we are being manipulated. There is a growing threat to the material evidence of the truth about history. We are in serious trouble if we can no longer trust the tangible world around us to tell us the truth. Monumental Lies explores the threats to our understanding of the built environment and how it impacts on our lives, as well as offers solutions to how to combat the ideological manipulations. Chosen as one of the best Architecture and Design books of 2022 by The Financial Times

Author : Jackie Buckle
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9780718895457

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Monumental Tales by Jackie Buckle Pdf

Around the world there are thousands of pet statues and memorials with fascinating stories behind them. Some reveal insights into our social history, such as the little brown dog in Battersea that was a focus of suffragette riots. Others have wonderfully quirky origins, like the twenty-three cats of York: sculptures added to buildings designed by a cat-loving architect. Many more reveal tales of courage, loyalty, myth, and legend. From Egyptian cat goddesses and the heroic dogs of war, to search-and-rescue canines on 9/11 and Tombili the Turkish moggy who became an Internet sensation, this book brings together a selection of the most surprising, amusing and illuminating stories, complete with dozens of full-colour photographs. Anyone with an appreciation of pets, the varied roles they play in our lives, and the ways in which our relationships with them have evolved over time, should find much of interest in this book. Should you spot some pet statues or memorials of your own, please do let the author know via the book’s website: www.monumentaltales.org.uk.

Author : Albert E. Richardson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0486415341

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Monumental Classic Architecture in Great Britain and Ireland by Albert E. Richardson Pdf

Detailed text and illustrations examine the buildings of the great neoclassical period, 1730–1875. The roster of masterpieces pictured and described include The Customs House, Dublin; The Bank of England, Liverpool; Newgate Prison, London; The British Museum, London; The National Gallery, Edinburgh; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; and many more. 176 black-and-white illustrations.

Author : Andrea Connor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317353690

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The Political Afterlife of Sites of Monumental Destruction by Andrea Connor Pdf

What happens when a monumental thing is physically destroyed? Is its "life" as a socially significant, presencing thing at an end? Or might the process of destruction work to enhance its symbolic force, mediating work and presencing power? In this book Andrea Connor traces the ‘afterlife’ of two exemplary examples of monumental destruction and their re-investment with cultural value and symbolic significance. In 1993, during the Bosnian war, the Mostar Bridge was completely destroyed. Reconstructed in 2004, as an exact copy of the original, this "new Old Bridge" has assumed an afterlife as an intentional monument to reconciliation. The World Trade Centre, in New York, has also been transformed since its destruction in 2001, as a place of national mourning and remembrance, a symbolic void marking a singular act of terrorism. Using recent work on affect and object agency Connor considers their contested reconfiguration as sites of collective remembering and forgetting in new highly charged political contexts. She argues for a more expansive notion of reconstruction – encompassing not only the material and symbolic afterlife of both things but also their affecting afterlives as they are re-assembled in the present. Provoking a reconsideration of the way monuments and heritage sites, even in their absence, become powerful agents of historical narrativization, this work will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of fields including international relations, cultural studies, critical heritage studies, and material culture studies.

Author : Richard Bradley
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798888570395

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Monumental Times by Richard Bradley Pdf

Richard Bradley's latest thought provoking re-examination of familiar monumental archaeology drawing on latest discussions of multi-temporality and the implications of new levels of analysis afforded by developments in archaeological sciences such as DNA, radiocarbon dating and isotopes. This book is concerned with the origins, uses and subsequent histories of monuments. It emphasises the time scales illustrated by these structures, and their implications for archaeological research. It is concerned with the archaeology of Western and Northern Europe, with an emphasis on structures in Britain and Ireland, and the period between the Mesolithic and the Viking Age. It begins with two famous groups of monuments and introduces the problem of multiple time scales. It also considers how they influence the display of those sites today – they belong to both the present and the past. Monuments played a role from the moment they were created, but approaches to their archaeology led in opposite directions. They might have been directed to a future that their builders could not control. These structures could be adapted, destroyed, or left to decay once their significance was lost. Another perspective was to claim them as relics of a forgotten past. In that case they had to be reinterpreted. The first part of this book considers the rarity of monumental structures among hunter-gatherers, and the choice of building materials for Neolithic houses and tombs. It emphasises the difference between structures whose erection ended the use of significant places, and those whose histories could extend into the future. It also discusses ‘megalithic astronomy’ and ancient notions of time. Part Two is concerned with the reuse of ancient monuments and asks whether they really were expressions of social memory. Did links with an ‘ancestral past’ have much factual basis? It contrasts developments during the Beaker phase with those of the early medieval period. The development of monumental architecture is compared with the composition of oral literature.

Author : Sheila Blair
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1991-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004660816

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The Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana by Sheila Blair Pdf

Inscriptions on buildings are a distinctive feature of Islamic architecture, and this book studies the 79 surviving monumental inscriptions in the Iranian world from the first five centuries of the Muslim era (A.D. 622-1106), the period in which all the major trends of monumental epigraphy in the area were set. These foundation, commemorative, and funerary texts come from the region between Iraq and Soviet Central Asia. Written primarily in Arabic, they embellished architectural monuments and furnishings whose nature implies the construction of major buildings. An extended introduction discusses such general topics as titulature, patronage, and stylistic development. Each text is then presented individually with photographs, drawings, transcriptions, translations and an extensive commentary, which presents the inscription in its larger palaeographic and historical contexts.

Author : Rita Sakr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441166692

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Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel by Rita Sakr Pdf

There has been a proliferation in recent scholarship of studies of monuments and their histories and of theoretical positions that shed light on aspects of their meanings. However, just as monuments mark their territory by attempting to ensure the existence of boundaries, sothese discourses set a boundary between their authority as platforms on which the interpretation of monumental space occurs and, in this respect, the different authority of the novel. This study crosses this boundary by means of dynamic interdisciplinary movements between selected novels by James Joyce, Yukio Mishima, Rashid al-Daif, and Orhan Pamuk, on the one hand, and various theoretical perspectives,history, and cultural geography, on the other. Through the specific choice of literary texts that represent monumental space in a typical post-imperial geopolitical contexts, Monumental Space and the Post-Imperial Novel brings into question many postcolonial paradigms. Sakr establishes a two-way interpretive methodology between theory, history,and cultural geography and the novel that serves as the groundwork for innovative interdisciplinary readings of monumental space.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271043946

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Monumental Intolerance: Jean Baffier, a Nationalist Sculptor in Fin-de-Si_cle France by Anonim Pdf

But Baffier would probably not have received wide public attention if he had not also become a folklorist, a promoter of regional culture, and a militant nationalist with beliefs so violent that he attempted a political assassination."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Matthew Fraser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,9 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.

Author : Stephen C. Pinson,Sylvie Aubenas,Olivier Caumont,Silvia A. Centeno,Thomas Galifot,Nora W. Kennedy,Grant B. Romer,Martina Rugiadi,Andrea E. Schlather,Lindsey S. Stewart,Andrew Szegedy-Maszak,Ariadna Cervera Xicotencatl
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781588396631

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Monumental Journey by Stephen C. Pinson,Sylvie Aubenas,Olivier Caumont,Silvia A. Centeno,Thomas Galifot,Nora W. Kennedy,Grant B. Romer,Martina Rugiadi,Andrea E. Schlather,Lindsey S. Stewart,Andrew Szegedy-Maszak,Ariadna Cervera Xicotencatl Pdf

In 1842, the pioneering French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804–1892) set out eastward across the Mediterranean, daguerreotype equipment in tow. He spent the next three years documenting lands that were then largely unknown to the West, including Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon, in some of the earliest surviving photographic images of these places. Monumental Journey, the first monograph in English on this brilliant yet enigmatic artist, explores the hundreds of daguerreotypes Girault made during his unprecedented trip, offering a rare, early look at sites and cities that have since been altered—sometimes irrevocably—by urban, environmental, and political change. Beautiful full-scale reproductions of Girault’s photographs, many published here for the first time, and incisive essays shed new light on the arc of his career and his groundbreaking contributions to the burgeoning fields of photography, archaeology, and architectural history. Monumental Journey presents an artist of astonishing innovation whose work occupies a singular space at the border of history and modernity, tradition and invention, endurance and evanescence. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}

Author : Matthew Holbeche Bloxam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Funeral rites and ceremonies
ISBN : OXFORD:600042517

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A Glimpse at the Monumental Architecture and Sculpture of Great Britain, by Matthew Holbeche Bloxam Pdf

Author : Silvester Tissington
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382331337

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A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions by Silvester Tissington Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Silvester Tissington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Epitaphs
ISBN : BL:A0026368917

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A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions by Silvester Tissington Pdf