Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade

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. Connecting that history to the present with an epilogue on the World Trade Center, "Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade is pertinent not only for art historians but for anyone interested in the turbulent history of monuments--a history that is still very much with us today. Contributors: Stephen Bann, Jonathan Bordo, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Jas Elsner, Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Robert S. Nelson, Margaret Olin, Ruth B. Phillips, Mitchell Schwarzer, Lillian Lan-ying Tseng, Richard Wittman, Wu Hung Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Robert S. Nelson, Robert S. (EDT)/ Olin Nelson, Robert S. Olin Nelson, Margaret Olin
• Assisted by: Nelson (Editor), Robert S. Nelson (Editor), Olin (Editor), Margaret Olin (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9780226571577
• ISBN: 978-0-226-57157-7
• No. of pages: 353
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art