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Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc > Memorials, monuments
A beautifully illustrated study of the caves at Dunhuang, exploring
how this important Buddhist site has been visualized from its
creation to today Situated at the crossroads of the northern and
southern routes of the ancient silk routes in western China,
Dunhuang is one of the richest Buddhist sites in the world, with
more than 500 richly decorated cave temples constructed between the
fourth and fourteenth centuries. The sculptures, murals, portable
paintings, and manuscripts found in the Mogao and Yulin Caves at
Dunhuang represent every aspect of Buddhism. From its earliest
construction to the present, this location has been visualized by
many individuals, from the architects, builders, and artists who
built the caves to twentieth-century explorers, photographers, and
conservators, as well as contemporary artists. Visualizing
Dunhuang: Seeing, Studying, and Conserving the Caves is a paperback
edition of the ninth volume of the magnificent nine-volume hardback
set, and examines how the Lo Archive, a vast collection of
photographs taken in the 1940s of the Mogao and Yulin Caves,
inspires a broad range of scholarship. Lavishly illustrated with
selected Lo Archive and modern photographs, the essays address
three main areas-Dunhuang as historical record, as site, and as art
and art history. Leading experts across three continents examine a
wealth of topics, including expeditionary photography and cave
architecture, to demonstrate the intellectual richness of Dunhuang.
Diverse as they are in their subjects and methodologies, the essays
represent only a fraction of what can be researched about Dunhuang.
The high concentration of caves at Mogao and Yulin and their
exceptional contents chronicle centuries of artistic styles, shifts
in Buddhist doctrine, and patterns of political and private
patronage-providing an endless source of material for future work.
Contributors include Neville Agnew, Dora Ching, Jun Hu, Annette
Juliano, Richard Kent, Wei-Cheng Lin, Cary Liu, Maria Menshikova,
Jerome Silbergeld, Roderick Whitfield, and Zhao Shengliang.
Published in association with the Tang Center for East Asian Art,
Princeton University
Part One: The Islamic Monuments of Bhadresvar: Introduction &
History Part Two: A Study of the Islamic Inscriptions in Bhadresvar
Studies and Sources on Islamic Art and Architecture: Supplements to
Muqarnas contain textual primary sources for visual culture and
scholarly historical examinations of topics and issues in Islamic
art, architecture and culture.
The National Mall in Washington, D.C., is 'a great public space, as
essential a part of the American landscape as the Grand Canyon,'
according to architecture critic Paul Goldberger, but few realize
how recent, fragile, and contested this achievement is. In
"Monument Wars", Kirk Savage tells the Mall's engrossing story -
its historic plan, the structures that populate its corridors, and
the sea change it reveals regarding national representation.
Central to this narrative is a dramatic shift from the
nineteenth-century concept of a decentralized landscape, or
'ground'-heroic statues spread out in traffic circles and
picturesque parks-to the twentieth-century ideal of 'space,' in
which authority is concentrated in an intensified center, and the
monument is transformed from an object of reverence to a space of
experience. Savage's lively and intelligent analysis traces the
refocusing of the monuments themselves, from that of a single man,
often on horseback, to commemorations of common soldiers or
citizens; and, from monuments that celebrate victory and heroism to
memorials honoring victims. An indispensable guide to the National
Mall, "Monument Wars" provides a fresh and fascinating perspective
on over two hundred years of American history.
In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials - to executed
witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with
those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end
of Communism - have dotted the American landscape. Equally
ubiquitous, though until now less the subject of serious inquiry,
are temporary memorials: spontaneous offerings of flowers and
candles that materialize at sites of tragic and traumatic death. In
"Memorial Mania", Erika Doss argues that these memorials underscore
our obsession with issues of memory and history, and the urgent
desire to express - and claim - those issues in visibly public
contexts. Doss shows how this desire to memorialize the past
disposes itself to individual anniversaries and personal
grievances, to stories of tragedy and trauma, and to the social and
political agendas of diverse numbers of Americans. By offering a
framework for understanding these sites, Doss engages the larger
issues behind our culture of commemoration. Driven by heated
struggles over identity and the politics of representation,
Memorial Mania is a testament to the fevered pitch of public
feelings in America today.
Built by the Boulton family between 1817 and 1820, the Grange is
Toronto's oldest remaining brick house. During the nineteenth
century, the Grange was at the centre of the city's social and
political activity. Today, with its collection of furniture,
artifacts, and art, it is an historic house museum and part of the
Art Gallery of Ontario. In her fascinating essay, award-winning
Canadian historian Charlotte Gray brings to life the saga of the
Grange, the home of the Boultons and of Goldwin Smith in the 19th
century. Devoting as much attention to the formidable women who ran
the household as to the men who were key figures in the development
of the city, she offers a fascinating portrait of a place and a
time. Complementing Gray's essay are shorter essays and
reproductions of works commissioned from artists Rebecca Belmore,
Luis Jacob, Elizabeth LeMoine, Josiah McElheny, Elaine Reichek, and
Christy Thompson that offer inventive responses to a complicated
past.
Monuments have fascinated human beings and enriched cities as
keepers of memories and history, as places to spend time, as
meeting points, and as points of orientation through various times
and in various forms. However, as a major component of the
discipline of architecture and urban design, the term monument and
its relation to the city are in crisis. This book explores a
rediscovery of the concept of monuments as essential and creative
parts of cities. Based on the re-reading of four powerful urban
interplays in Sao Paulo, the concept of 'Monuments of Everyday
Life' is outlined, revealing specific spatial patterns that are
understood as alternatives to places of instability,
commercialisation and homogenisation of urban space. These
interplays are relevant as reference points of collective life and
material representatives of collective values. Monuments of
Everyday Life draws conclusions from the past, but also addresses
relevant questions and potentials for urban futures.
Which memorial's unveiling were the public barred from, so that no
disruption could be caused by suffragettes? Why is a Danish
prisoner of war remembered in Reading? Who was Goldwin Smith, whose
birthplace is marked by a plaque on Friar Street? Did the sculptor
responsible for the lion in the Forbury really commit suicide
because of it? How many times did Queen Victoria visit Reading, and
did she like her statue? The stories behind Reading's memorials
bring the people and events of Reading's past to life. This book
describes aspects of the town's history by considering some of its
- often not well known - plaques, statues and monuments. Even the
better known memorials have secrets to yield in the tales of their
origins. With descriptions of where the memorials can be found,
along with photographs to help identification, the book reveals
vivid glimpses of life in Victorian Reading, and reminds us of the
physical, as well as social legacy, our forebears left behind them.
Why is the broad avenue leading to St. Peter's called the Street of
Reconciliation? What does the Via dei Fori Imperiali--where the
ancient imperial forums lie--have to do with Mussolini? How does
the name Piazza Navona disclose what is hidden under the square?
Via Roma tells Rome's secrets one street at a time. In this
brilliant guide, Willemijn van Dijk takes readers across time and
place as they wander along the roads of the ancient Italian
capital. Street by street, fifty of them, van Dijk allows the
stones to reveal their origins, their makers, the significance of
their names, and the history they continue to echo. Caesars, popes,
dictators, mafia dons, generals, philosophers, and artists.
Architecture, ideas, romance, food, and intrigue. Rome is the
eternal city to which all roads lead, and van Dijk unfolds the
city's rich past through those roads. Via Roma is an indispensable
book for any and every inquisitive lover, and visitor, of the city
along the Tiber.
Installed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the
tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue
Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit
(leader) as a welcoming diplomat and participant in the mythical
first Thanksgiving. But after the statue's unveiling, Massasoit
began to move and proliferate in ways one would not expect of
generally stationary monuments tethered to place. The plaster model
was donated to the artist's home state of Utah and prominently
displayed in the state capitol; half a century later, it was caught
up in a surprising case of fraud in the fine arts market. Versions
of the statue now stand on Brigham Young University's campus; at an
urban intersection in Kansas City, Missouri; and in countless homes
around the world in the form of souvenir statuettes. As Lisa Blee
and Jean M. O'Brien show in this thought-provoking book, the
surprising story of this monumental statue reveals much about the
process of creating, commodifying, and reinforcing the historical
memory of Indigenous people. Dallin's statue, set alongside the
historical memory of the actual Massasoit and his mythic
collaboration with the Pilgrims, shows otherwise hidden dimensions
of American memorial culture: an elasticity of historical
imagination, a tight-knit relationship between consumption and
commemoration, and the twin impulses to sanitize and grapple with
the meaning of settler-colonialism.
'A refreshingly original meditation... I wish I had written it
myself' Literary Review Graveyards are oases: places of escape,
peace and reflection. Liminal sites of commemoration, where the
past is close enough to touch. Yet they also reflect their living
community - how in our restless, accelerated modern world, we are
losing our sense of connection to the dead. Jean Sprackland - the
prize-winning poet and author of Strands - travels back through her
life, revisiting her once local graveyards. In seeking out the
stories of those who lived and died there, remembered and
forgotten, she unearths what has been lost.
This book provides a holistic and longitudinal study of war
memorialisation in the UK, France and the USA from 1860 to 2014.
Moving beyond the social-political circumstances of a memorial's
construction, this study examines memorialisation as a continuing
and transformative process. It explores the many ways in which war
memorials are repeatedly appropriated, and re-appropriated,
undergoing both physical and symbolic transformations. In order to
study this full range of transformations, this book presents a
unique analytical model that conceptualises objects of memory
within three intersecting timescales: the chronological timescale,
the conflict timescale and the object timescale. This new
methodology facilitates an innovative, holistic approach of
understanding engagement with a monument at any given moment in
time, allowing meaningful comparisons to be made across both
spatial and cultural boundaries. In doing so, it enables an
approach to the cultural heritage conflict that moves beyond the
socio-political to conceptualise war memorials within a shared
cultural experience.
Nine killed in Charleston church shooting. White supremacists
demonstrate in Charlottesville. Monuments decommissioned in New
Orleans and Chapel Hill. The headlines keep coming, and the debate
rolls on. How should we contend with our troubled history as a
nation? What is the best way forward? This first book in UGA
Press's History in the Headlines series offers a rich discussion
between four leading scholars who have studied the history of
Confederate memory and memorialization. Through this dialogue, we
see how historians explore contentious topics and provide
historical context for students and the broader public. Confederate
Statues and Memorialization artfully engages the past and its
influence on present racial and social tensions in an accessible
format for students and interested general readers. Following the
conversation, the book includes a "Top Ten" set of essays and
articles that everyone should read to flesh out their understanding
of this contentious, sometimes violent topic. The book closes with
an extended list of recommended reading, offering readers specific
suggestions for pursuing other voices and points of view.
A study of American attempts to come to terms with the legacy of
the Vietnam War, this book highlights the central role played by
Vietnam veterans in shaping public memory of the war. Tracing the
evolution of the image of the Vietnam veteran from alienated
dissenter to traumatised victim to noble warrior, Patrick Hagopian
describes how efforts to commemorate the war increasingly
downplayed the political divisions it spawned in favour of a more
unifying emphasis on honouring veterans and promoting national
"healing."
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