In Memory of

In Memory of PDF Author: Spencer Bailey
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9781838661441
Category : ARCHITECTURE
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An extraordinary book that explores the art, architecture, and design of memorials around the world from the late twentieth century to today - an important book for our time

Monument Wars

Monument Wars PDF Author: Kirk Savage
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520271335
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
Traces the history of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., discussing its plan and structures, and considering how the concept of memorials and memorial space has changed since the nineteenth century.

Mortuary Monuments and Burial Grounds of the Historic Period

Mortuary Monuments and Burial Grounds of the Historic Period PDF Author: Harold Mytum
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441990380
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
This practical volume focuses on the study of historic burial ground monuments but also covers some below ground archaeology, as some projects will involve the study of both. It will be an incomparable source for academic archaeologists, cultural resource and heritage management archaeologists, government heritage agencies, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students of archaeology focused on the historic or post-medieval period, as well as forensic researchers and anthropologists.

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves PDF Author: Kirk Savage
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691184526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
A history of U.S. Civil War monuments that shows how they distort history and perpetuate white supremacy The United States began as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how the history of slavery and its violent end was told in public spaces—specifically in the sculptural monuments that came to dominate streets, parks, and town squares in nineteenth-century America. Looking at monuments built and unbuilt, Kirk Savage shows how the greatest era of monument building in American history took place amid struggles over race, gender, and collective memory. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves probes a host of fascinating questions and remains the only sustained investigation of post-Civil War monument building as a process of national and racial definition. Featuring a new preface by the author that reflects on recent events surrounding the meaning of these monuments, and new photography and illustrations throughout, this new and expanded edition reveals how monuments exposed the myth of a "united" people, and have only become more controversial with the passage of time.

Grassroots Memorials

Grassroots Memorials PDF Author: Peter Jan Margry
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857451901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
Grassroots memorials have become major areas of focus during times of trauma, danger, and social unrest. These improvised memorial assemblages continue to display new and more dynamic ways of representing collective and individual identities and in doing so reveal the steps that shape the national memories of those who struggle to come to terms with traumatic loss. This volume focuses on the hybrid quality of these temporary memorials as both monuments of mourning and as focal points for protest and expression of discontent. The broad range of case studies in this volume include anti-mafia shrines, Theo van Gogh’s memorial, September 11th memorials, March 11th shrines in Madrid, and Carlo Giuliani memorials in Genoa.

No Common Ground

No Common Ground PDF Author: Karen L. Cox
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146966268X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219

Book Description
When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She lucidly shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that antimonument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals.

The Everyday Life of Memorials

The Everyday Life of Memorials PDF Author: Andrew M. Shanken
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1942130732
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 323

Book Description
A timely study, erudite and exciting, about the ordinary—and oftentimes unseen—lives of memorials Memorials are commonly studied as part of the commemorative infrastructure of modern society. Just as often, they are understood as sites of political contestation, where people battle over the meaning of events. But most of the time, they are neither. Instead, they take their rest as ordinary objects, part of the street furniture of urban life. Most memorials are “turned on” only on special days, such as Memorial Day, or at heated moments, as in August 2017, when the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville was overtaken by a political maelstrom. The rest of the time they are turned off. This book is about the everyday life of memorials. It explores their relationship to the pulses of daily life, their meaning within this quotidian context, and their place within the development of modern cities. Through Andrew Shanken’s close historical readings of memorials, both well-known and obscure, two distinct strands of scholarship are thus brought together: the study of the everyday and memory studies. From the introduction of modern memorials in the wake of the French Revolution through the recent destruction of Confederate monuments, memorials have oscillated between the everyday and the “not-everyday.” In fact, memorials have been implicated in the very structure of these categories. The Everyday Life of Memorials explores how memorials end up where they are, grow invisible, fight with traffic, get moved, are assembled into memorial zones, and are drawn anew into commemorations and political maelstroms that their original sponsors never could have imagined. Finally, exploring how people behave at memorials and what memorials ask of people reveals just how strange the commemorative infrastructure of modernity is.

An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Anglesey

An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Anglesey PDF Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Wales
Publisher: RCAHMW
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 585

Book Description
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales has a leading national role in developing and promoting understanding of the archaeological, built and maritime heritage of Wales, as the originator, curator and supplier of authoritative information for individual, corporate and governmental decision makers, researchers, and the general public.

Memorials of old Lancashire, ed. by lieut.-col. Fishwick and P.H. Ditchfield

Memorials of old Lancashire, ed. by lieut.-col. Fishwick and P.H. Ditchfield PDF Author: Henry Fishwick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lancashire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 342

Book Description


An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Caernarvonshire: III West: the Cantref of Lleyn together with the General Survey

An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Caernarvonshire: III West: the Cantref of Lleyn together with the General Survey PDF Author:
Publisher: RCAHMW
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 431

Book Description
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales has a leading national role in developing and promoting understanding of the archaeological, built and maritime heritage of Wales, as the originator, curator and supplier of authoritative information for individual, corporate and governmental decision makers, researchers, and the general public.