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Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc > Memorials, monuments
The famous Lion Monument in Lucerne, located in a park in the heart
of the city, commemorates the Swiss Guards in the service of the
French King Louis XVI who fell in the storming of the Tuileries
Palace in Paris on August 10, 1792. The monument, hewn directly
into the rockface according to a design by the Danish sculptor
Bertel Thorvaldsen, was inaugurated on August 10, 1821. Together
with the nearby Glacier Garden, it is today one of the Swiss
city’s major tourist attractions. To mark the memorial’s
bicentenary, the Kunsthalle Lucerne launched the Lion Monument 21
program of exhibitions, performances, podiums, and
interdisciplinary events. Between 2017 and 2021, they considered
the monument from an artistic standpoint. The art projects
demonstrated a wide range of artistic stances and related the
monument to a variety of themes. This book documents the entire
project through some 400 images, texts, and conversations. It also
constitutes a socially committed reference book for the artistic
contextualisation of monuments, which records and reflects on the
insights of the Lion Monument 21 project. Text in English and
German.
It is fascinating to think that many hundreds of generations of
Londoners lie beneath the city without us knowing. Over many
centuries burial grounds have been developed, built over and then
forgotten, often beneath playgrounds, gardens or car parks. When
modern development takes place, remains are disturbed and we are
reminded of a London that has long since disappeared, particularly
with recent archaeological discoveries across the city. In London's
Hidden Burial Grounds, authors Robert Bard and Adrian Miles seek to
uncover many of the capital's lost graveyards, often in the
unlikeliest of places.
The San Francisco Civic Center tells the 150-year story of San
Francisco's city halls and Civic Center. The grandest collection of
monumental municipal buildings in the United States, the Civic
Center is one of the finest achievements of the American reformist
City Beautiful movement and a stunning manifestation of one of the
nation's most dynamic and creative cities.
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Zachary T Washburn, Linda N Hixon
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Drawing on a range of disciplines from within the humanities and
social sciences, Multilingual Memories addresses questions of
remembering and forgetting from an explicitly multilingual
perspective. From a museum at Victoria Falls in Zambia to a
Japanese-American internment in Arkansas, this book probes how the
medium of the communication of memories affirms social orders
across the globe. Applying linguistic landscape approaches to a
wide variety of monuments and memorials from around the world, this
book identifies how multilingualism (and its absence) contributes
to the inevitable partiality of public memorials. Using a number of
different methods, including multimodal discourse analysis, code
preferences, interaction orders, and indexicality, the chapters
explore how memorials have the potential to erase linguistic
diversity as much as they can entextualize multilingualism. With
examples from Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and North and
South America, this volume also examines the extent to which
multilingual memories legitimize not only specific discourses but
also individuals, particular communities, and ethno-linguistic
groups - often to the detriment of others.
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