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The Art of Forgetting (Hardcover)
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The Art of Forgetting (Hardcover)
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In tracing the process through which monuments give rise to
collective memories, this path-breaking book emphasizes that
memorials are not just inert and amnesiac spaces upon which
individuals may graft their ever-shifting memories. To the
contrary, the materiality of monuments can be seen to elicit a
particular collective mode of remembering which shapes the
consumption of the past as a shared cultural form of memory. In a
variety of disciplines over the past decade, attention has moved
away from the oral tradition of memory to the interplay between
social remembering and object worlds. But research is very sketchy
in this area and the materiality of monuments has tended to be
ignored within anthropological literature, compared to the amount
of attention given to commemorative practice. Art and architectural
history, on the other hand, have been much interested in memorial
representation through objects, but have paid scant attention to
issues of social memory. Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary in
scope, this book fills this gap and addresses topics ranging from
material objects to physical space; from the contemporary to the
historical; and from 'high art' to memorials outside the category
of art altogether. In so doing, it represents a significant
contribution to an emerging field.
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