Monumental Transformations

Author : Matthew Craske
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351555104

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Pantheons by Matthew Craske Pdf

The institution of the pantheon has come a long way from its classical origins. Invented to describe a temple dedicated to many deities, the term later became so far removed from its original meaning, that by the twentieth century, it has been able to exist independently of any architectural and sculptural monument. This collection of essays is the first to trace the transformation of the monumental idea of the pantheon from its origins in Greek and Roman antiquity to its later appearance as a means of commemorating and enshrining the ideals of national identity and statehood. Illuminating the emergence of the pantheon in a range of different cultures and periods by exploring its different manifestations and implementations, the essays open new historical perspectives on the formation of national and civic identities.

Author : Andrea Connor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : John Sodiq Sanni,Madalitso Zililo Phiri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003858393

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Monuments and Memory in Africa by John Sodiq Sanni,Madalitso Zililo Phiri Pdf

This book investigates how monuments have been used in Africa as tools of oppression and dominance, from the colonial period up to the present day. The book asks what the decolonisation of historical monuments and geographies might entail and how this could contribute to the creation of a post-imperial world. In recent times, African movements to overthrow the symbols and monuments of the colonial era have gathered pace as a means of renaming, reclassifying, and reimagining colonial identities and spaces. Movements such as #RhodesMustFall in South Africa have sprung up around the world, connected by a history of Black life struggles, erasures, oppression, suppression, and the depression of Black biopolitics. This book provides an important multidisciplinary intervention in the discourse on monuments and memories, asking what they are, what they have been used to represent, and ultimately what they can reveal about past and present forms of pain and oppression. Drawing on insights from philosophy, historical sociology, politics, museum, and literary studies, this book will be of interest to a range of scholars with an interest in the decolonisation of global African history.

Author : Brett A. Houk,Barbara Arroyo,Terry G. Powis
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813057347

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Approaches to Monumental Landscapes of the Ancient Maya by Brett A. Houk,Barbara Arroyo,Terry G. Powis Pdf

This volume brings together a wide spectrum of new approaches to ancient Maya studies in an innovative exploration of how the Preclassic and Classic Maya shaped their world. Moving beyond the towering temples and palaces typically associated with the Maya civilization, contributors present unconventional examples of monumental Maya landscapes. Featuring studies from across the central Maya lowlands, Belize, and the northern and central Maya highlands and spanning over 10,000 years of human occupation in the region, these chapters show how the word “monumental” can be used to describe natural and constructed landscapes, political and economic landscapes, and ritual and sacred landscapes. Examples include a massive system of aqueducts and canals at the Kaminaljuyu site, a vast arena designed for public spectacle at Chan Chich, and even the complex realms of Maya cosmology as represented by the ritual cave at Las Cuevas. By including physical, conceptual, and symbolic ways monumentality pervaded ancient Maya culture, this volume broadens traditional understandings of how the Maya interacted with their environment and provides exciting analytical perspectives to guide future study. A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

Author : Rita Sakr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441105387

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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 : David R. Fontijn,Sasja Vaart,Richard Jansen
Publisher : Sidestone Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9789088901027

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Transformation Through Destruction by David R. Fontijn,Sasja Vaart,Richard Jansen Pdf

Over a 1000 tiny bronze artefacts were found alongside the remains of a man in a Dutch barrow that was excavated in laboratory conditions. The objects had been dismantled and taken apart, all to be destroyed by fire in what appears to have been a pars pro toto burial. In essence, a person and a place were being transformed through destruction. Based on the meticulous excavation and a range of specialist and comprehensive studies of finds, a prehistoric burial ritual now can be brought to life in surprising detail. This Iron Age community used extraordinary objects that find their closest counterpart in the elite graves of the Hallstatt culture in Central Europe.

Author : Richard Bradley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134744848

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The Significance of Monuments by Richard Bradley Pdf

The Neolithic period, when agriculture began and many monuments - including Stonehenge - were constructed, is an era fraught with paradoxes and ambiguities. Starting in the Mesolithic and carrying his analysis through to the Late Bronze Age, Richard Bradley sheds light on this complex period and the changing consciousness of these prehistoric peoples. The Significance of Monuments studies the importance of monuments tracing their history from their first creation over six thousand years later. Part One discusses how monuments first developed and their role in developing a new sense of time and space among the inhabitants of prehistoric Europe. Other features of the prehistoric landscape - such as mounds and enclosures - across Continental Europe are also examined. Part Two studies how such monuments were modified and reinterpreted to suit the changing needs of society through a series of detailed case studies. The Significance of Monuments is an indispensable text for all students of European prehistory. It is also an enlightening read for professional archaeologists and all those interested in this fascinating period.

Author : Katherine Zubovich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691202723

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Moscow Monumental by Katherine Zubovich Pdf

"An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper"--

Author : Norman Yoffee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521190084

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The Cambridge World History by Norman Yoffee Pdf

The most comprehensive account yet of the human past from prehistory to the present.

Author : Deborah Cherry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317704515

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The Afterlives of Monuments by Deborah Cherry Pdf

South Asia is famous for its monuments, past and present. Monuments have been created, destroyed and rescued by competing communities and incoming empires in the making and re-making of history, identity and memory. This collection brings together an international cohort of senior scholars and younger researchers to examine the vast diversity of monuments (and conceptions of monuments) in South Asia from the 1850s to the present. The chapters investigate what constitutes a monument, and interrogate the conditions for its survival, demise or recycling. To explore the afterlives of monuments is to investigate how, where, when, and why monuments have been remodelled, re-sited, destroyed, defaced, or abandoned. It is to investigate the theories of memory, history and community, as well as new forms of artistic practice and global media. As different South-Asian communities claim a stake in the making of national, religious, cultural and local identities and histories, the status of monuments and debates about cultural memory have become increasingly urgent. This book was published as a special issue of South Asian Studies.

Author : Kirk Savage
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520271333

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Monument Wars by Kirk Savage Pdf

Kirk Savage explores the National Mall in Washington D.C., site of some of the most important & poignant memorials in the U.S. He shows how the idea of monument has changed over the decades, & how the 19th century concept of the monument has given way to the late 20th century idea of 'space', the monument as an experience.

Author : Sheldon H. Lu,Haomin Gong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000697872

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Ecology and Chinese-Language Cinema by Sheldon H. Lu,Haomin Gong Pdf

This edited collection explores new developments in the burgeoning field of Chinese ecocinema, examining a variety of works from local productions to global market films, spanning the Maoist era to the present. The ten chapters examine films with ecological significance in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, including documentaries, feature films, blockbusters and independent productions. Covering not only well-known works, such as Under the Dome, Wolf Totem, Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracts, and Mermaid, this book also provides analysis of less well-known but critically important works, such as Anchorage Prohibited, Luzon, and Three Flower/Tri-Color. The unique perspectives this book provides, along with the comprehensive engagement with existing Chinese and English scholarship, not only extend the scope of the growing field of ecocinematic studies, but also seeks to reform the means through which Chinese-language eco-films are understood in the years to come. Ecology and Chinese-Language Ecocinema will be of huge interest to students and scholars in the fields of Chinese cinema, environmental studies, media and communication studies.

Author : Liviu Damşa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319485300

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The Transformation of Property Regimes and Transitional Justice in Central Eastern Europe by Liviu Damşa Pdf

This volume examines the property transformations in post-communist Central Eastern Europe (CEE) and focuses on the role of restitution and privatisation in such transformations. It argues that the theorisation of ‘restitution’ in post-communist CEE is incomplete in the transitional justice scholarship and in the literature on correction of historical wrongs. The book also argues that, for a more complete theorisation of (post-communist) restitution, the transformations of property in post-communist societies ought to be studied in a more holistic way. The main legal vehicles used for such transformations, privatisation and restitution, should not be studied separately and in abstract, but in their reciprocal relationship, and in connection to the dimension of justice which each could achieve. Finally, the book integrates ‘privatisation’ in a theory of post-communist transformation of property.

Author : Hilde van Gelder
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 9058674886

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Constantin Meunier by Hilde van Gelder Pdf

Constantin Meunier's monument to labour at the 1909 Meunier Exhibition in Leuven / Sura Levine. - Constantin Meunier and Leuven (1887-1897): a love-hate relationship / Marjan Sterckx. - Dilemma between engagement and creativity / Virgine Devillez. - 'Social realism' then and now: Constantin Meunier and Allan Sekula / Hilde van Gelder. - Globalisation and social rights/ Eva Brems. - Meunier and the new social question / Marc De Vos.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Austria
ISBN : UCBK:C049361758

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Austrian Information by Anonim Pdf