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Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc > Memorials, monuments
This is an annotated translation of what is perhaps the most
important Ottoman literary source for the architectural monuments
and urban form of the Ottoman capital, Istanbul: Hafiz Huseyin bin
Ismail Ayvansarayi's Hadikat al-Cevami (The Garden of Mosques).
There are also separate descriptions of each of Istanbul's more
than 800 mosques, plus accounts of its medreses, tombs, tekkes and
other pious foundations.
Taking as its focus memorials of the First World War in Britain,
this book brings a fresh approach to the study of public symbols by
exploring how different motives for commemorating the dead were
reconciled through the processes of local politics to create a
widely valued form of collective expression. It examines how the
memorials were produced, what was said about them, how support for
them was mobilized and behaviour around them regulated. These
memorials were the sites of contested, multiple and ambiguous
meanings, yet out of them a united public observance was created.
The author argues that this was possible because the interpretation
of them as symbols was part of a creative process in which new
meanings for traditional forms of memorial were established and
circulated. The memorials not only symbolized emotional responses
to the war, but also ambitions for the post-war era. Contemporaries
adopted new ways of thinking about largely traditional forms of
memorial to fit the uncertain social and political climate of the
inter-war years.This book represents a significant contribution to
the study of material culture and memory, as well as to the social
and cultural history of modern warfare.
Is it "Stalinist" for a formerly communist country to tear down a
statue of Stalin? Should the Confederate flag be allowed to fly
over the South Carolina state capitol? Is it possible for America
to honor General Custer and the Sioux Nation, Jefferson Davis and
Abraham Lincoln? Indeed, can a liberal, multicultural society
memorialize anyone at all, or is it committed to a strict
neutrality about the quality of the lives led by its citizens?In
Written in Stone, legal scholar Sanford Levinson considers the
tangled responses of ever-changing societies to the monuments and
commemorations created by past regimes or outmoded cultural and
political systems. Drawing on examples from Albania to Zimbabwe,
from Moscow to Managua, and paying particular attention to examples
throughout the American South, Levinson looks at social and legal
arguments regarding the display, construction, modification, and
destruction of public monuments. He asks what kinds of claims the
past has on the present, particularly if the present is defined in
dramatic opposition to its past values. In addition, he addresses
the possibilities for responding to the use and abuse of public
spaces and explores how a culture might memorialize its historical
figures and events in ways that are beneficial to all its members.
Written in Stone is a meditation on how national cultures have been
or may yet be defined through the deployment of public monuments.
It adds a thoughtful and crucial voice into debates surrounding
historical accuracy and representation, and will be welcomed by the
many readers concerned with such issues.
Offers a new approach to landscape perception.This book is an
extended photographic essay about topographic features of the
landscape. It integrates philosophical approaches to landscape
perception with anthropological studies of the significance of the
landscape in small-scale societies. This perspective is used to
examine the relationship between prehistoric sites and their
topographic settings. The author argues that the architecture of
Neolithic stone tombs acts as a kind of camera lens focussing
attention on landscape features such as rock outcrops, river
valleys, mountain spurs in their immediate surroundings. These
monuments played an active role in socializing the landscape and
creating meaning in it.A Phenomenology of Landscape is unusual in
that it links two types of publishing which have remained distinct
in archaeology: books with atmospheric photographs of monuments
with a minimum of text and no interpretation; and the academic text
in which words provide a substitute for visual imagery.
Attractively illustrated with many photographs and diagrams, it
will appeal to anyone interested in prehistoric monuments and
landscape as well as students and specialists in archaeology,
anthropology and human geography.
Inscriptions on buildings are a distinctive feature of Islamic
architecture, and this book studies the 79 surviving monumental
inscriptions in the Iranian world from the first five centuries of
the Muslim era (A.D. 622-1106), the period in which all the major
trends of monumental epigraphy in the area were set. These
foundation, commemorative, and funerary texts come from the region
between Iraq and Soviet Central Asia. Written primarily in Arabic,
they embellished architectural monuments and furnishings whose
nature implies the construction of major buildings. An extended
introduction discusses such general topics as titulature,
patronage, and stylistic development. Each text is then presented
individually with photographs, drawings, transcriptions,
translations and an extensive commentary, which presents the
inscription in its larger palaeographic and historical contexts.
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.
For decades, artists and architects have struggled to relate to the
Holocaust in visual form, resulting in memorials that feature a
diversity of aesthetic strategies. In Memory Passages, Natasha
Goldman analyzes both previously-overlooked and
internationally-recognized Holocaust memorials in the United States
and Germany from the postwar period to the present, drawing on many
historical documents for the first time. From the perspectives of
visual culture and art history, the book examines changing
attitudes toward the Holocaust and the artistic choices that
respond to it. The book introduces lesser-known sculptures, such as
Nathan Rapoport's Monument to the Six Million Jewish Martyrs in
Philadelphia, as well as internationally-acclaimed works, such as
Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin.
Other artists examined include Will Lammert, Richard Serra, Joel
Shapiro, Gerson Fehrenbach, Margit Kahl, and Andy
Goldsworthy.Archival documents and interviews with commissioners,
survivors, and artists reveal the conversations and decisions that
have shaped Holocaust memorials. Memory Passages suggests that
memorial designers challenge visitors to navigate and activate
spaces to engage with history and memory by virtue of walking or
meandering. This book will be valuable for anyone teaching-or
seeking to better understand-the Holocaust.
The National Mall in Washington, D.C. is one of the most important
and highly visible urban public spaces in the U.S. It is considered
by many Americans to be "the nation's front yard." Yet few have
written about the role of this public space in the twenty-first
century. In The National Mall, Lisa Benton-Short explores the
critical issues that are redefining and reshaping this
extraordinary public space. Her work focuses on three contemporary
and interrelated debates about public space: the management
challenges faced by federal authorities, increased demands for
access and security post 9/11, and the role of the public in the
Mall's long-term planning and development plans. By taking a
holistic view of the National Mall and analyzing the unique
twenty-first century challenges it faces, Lisa Benton-Short
provides a fluid, cohesive, and timely narrative that is as
extraordinary as the Mall itself.
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.
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