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

Contributor(s): Nelson, Robert S, 1947- | Olin, Margaret Rose, 1948-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003Description: viii, 345 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0226571580 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0226571572 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Monuments | Monuments -- Conservation and restoration | Historic sites | Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration | Memory -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 306.4/7 LOC classification: CC135 | .M647 2003Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- the rhetoric of monument making: the World Trade Center.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- 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 -- 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.

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