(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781839761881)
How statues, heritage and the built environment have become the battleground for the culture warsThe past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology upon the physical spaces around us....Loe edasi...
This book, playing with the themes of Corinne, Beatrice, Sibyl, Zenobia and other figures from the past, as well as the scarlet colour of poppies and pomegranates, concentrates on the women of the Victorian era, many of whom came together in Florenc...Loe edasi...
Explores the extraordinary range of monuments and memorials to be found in Scotland. It covers over 500 monuments and memorials which range from follies to fountains and from delicate sundials to colossal statues of long-dead aristocracy. Exp...Loe edasi...
To commemorate the centenary of the Cenotaph, this is the story of the exhaustive hunt for missing servicemen from the Great War and other twentieth century conflicts and how bodies continue to be recovered to this day. Why were there so many...Loe edasi...
Across the globe, memorial and grave sites are being increasingly weaponized in conflicts and politicized by parties to advance agendas. Here, Carol S. Lilly examines ideas of death, politics, memory, ideology and nationalism in the former Yugosla...Loe edasi...
This is a guidebook to Syrias historical and archeological treasures. It is a new, revised and expanded edition in a travel-friendly format. Syria is home to some of the worlds richest historical and archaeological remains dating from the Bronze Ag...Loe edasi...
Forever at the Finish Line tells the remarkable and inspiring story of Daniel Mitrovich, a runner from San Diego who had a goal of putting a life-size statue of New York Marathon founder Fred Lebow in Central Park. New York’s parks commissione...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Aug-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674278578)
Empty Plinths responds to the debate around the Columbus monument in Mexico City and probes the unstable narratives behind other memorials and public sculptures in the city. This collection of essays, interviews, artistic contributions, and pu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jul-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789048560134)
History of Art based in Sociological Qualitative Research Innovative perspective on mass graves and human rights Witness accounts and new documentation This book narrates how, beginning in 1936, bodies buried in mass graves during the Spanish War and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262552042)
A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center.The gigantic is everywhere, and gigantism is manifest in everything from excessively tall skyscrapers to globe-spannin...Loe edasi...
How has understanding of memory evolved over the past 2,500 years? How has our collective memory been influenced and expressed by politics, culture, philosophy and science? In a work that spans over 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addre...Loe edasi...
Across the globe, memorial and grave sites are being increasingly weaponized in conflicts and politicized by parties to advance agendas. Here, Carol S. Lilly examines ideas of death, politics, memory, ideology and nationalism in the former Yugosla...Loe edasi...
An illustrated history of sixteen of the worlds greatest cathedrals, interwoven with the lives, legacies and scandals of the people who built them....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Dec-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262547093)
A critical examination of the complex legacies of early Californian anthropology and linguistics for twenty-first-century communities. In January 2021, at a time when many institutions were reevaluating fraught histories, the University of Californi...Loe edasi...
Examines origins, uses and subsequent histories of early monuments; their distinctive time scales; changing concepts of time (both past and future), histories and remembering the past. This book is concerned with the origins, uses and subsequ...Loe edasi...
From ancient dwellings to modern high-tech skyscrapers, discover everything there is to know about the history of architecture worldwide. Covering over 6,000 years of human history, Architecture charts the most important developments in b...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Oct-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803991061)
Yorkshire is a land built from stone. From the limestone pavements of the Dales to the North York Moors, few landscapes characterize the beauty of the English landscape like Yorkshire. But tucked away, off the beaten track, are a collection of curiou...Loe edasi...
An exquisite collection of artefacts, sculptures, and historically significant treasures from across India. If the captivating bronze dancing girl of Harappa denoted sophisticated early civilisation, the stunning Sanchi Stupa symbolized the peak of...Loe edasi...
The extraordinary mysteries of the pyramids - revealedFrom the development of monumental architecture around 3,000 BC to the fabulous edifices that rose up from the desert plains of Giza, these are amongst the most remarkable structures in world his...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jul-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9781621908180)
Prior to the nineteenth century, few Americans knew anything more of Egyptian culture than what could be gained from studying the biblical Exodus. Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt at the end of the eighteenth century, however, initiated a cultu...Loe edasi...
Memorials have long been an important part of our built environments. In recent decades, there have been enormous changes in who and what we commemorate, and how. This increasing need for unique and sensitive memorials opens up new creative horizons...Loe edasi...
This book adopts an integrative approach to investigate the role of monumental architecture in shaping social dynamics and power relations on the island of Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age (LBA; c.1700-1050 BCE). Using such an approach, archaeologis...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jan-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526168115)
Monumental cares links the monument debate of the last decade to the history of realism, showing how art can address problems like the climate crisis, migration and authoritarian politics. Case studies range from Chicago and Berlin to Oslo, Bucharest...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jan-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526168085)
Monumental cares links the monument debate of the last decade to the history of realism, showing how art can address problems like the climate crisis, migration and authoritarian politics. Case studies range from Chicago and Berlin to Oslo, Bucharest...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jan-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9781621906964)
What can a cemetery tell us about the social and cultural dynamics of a place and time? Anthropologist Alison Bell suggests that cemeteries participate in the grassroots cultural work of crafting social connections, even as they test the transcend...Loe edasi...
The first major English-language publication of the Tekkieh Moaven and his fascinating Persian tilesA wonderful narrative insight of the ancient guardian SojdehpurColorful illustrations presenting tiles with floral, calligra...Loe edasi...
The history of burial in Fifes graveyards and cemeteries. This fascinating portrait of life and death in Fife over the centuries will appeal to both residents and visitors to this region of Scotland....Loe edasi...
In Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600), Jan L. de Jong studies how funerary monuments did not simply mark a grave, but offered an image of the deceased that was carefully crafted in order to generate a laudable memory and stimulate meditation on...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Utah Press,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781647690779)
Designated in 2016 by President Obama and reduced to 85 percent of its original size one year later by President Trump, Bears Ears National Monument continues to be a flash point of conflict between ranchers, miners, environmental groups, states̵...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Utah Press,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781647690762)
Designated in 2016 by President Obama and reduced to 85 percent of its original size one year later by President Trump, Bears Ears National Monument continues to be a flash point of conflict between ranchers, miners, environmental groups, states̵...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Oct-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781839761874)
How statues, heritage and the built environment have become the battleground for the culture warsThe past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology upon the physical spaces around us....Loe edasi...
A landmark illustrated history of rural church monuments - the forgotten national treasures of England and Wales. Deep in the countryside, away from metropolitan abbeys and cathedrals, thousands of funerary monuments are hidden in pari...Loe edasi...
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An illustrated history of sixteen of the worlds greatest cathedrals, interwoven with the lives, legacies and scandals of the people who built them. A glorious illustrated history of sixteen of the worlds greatest cathedrals, interwoven w...Loe edasi...
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From antiquity to the present day, this book offers a fascinating insight into the histories, movements and conflicts which have come to shape our world, viewed through the stories of the destruction of 21 statues. Confederate so...Loe edasi...
This book introduces the reader to the statues, busts, and memorial plaques of scientists, explorers, medicine men and women, and inventors found in the bustling capital of the United Kingdom, London. The former capital of the British Empire, London...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Feb-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Park Books, ISBN-13: 9783038602248)
An intriguing exploration of recent work by Höweler + Yoon, demonstrating how verification, uncertainty, and agency come into play with architectural design. Höweler + Yoon Architecture, founded in 2001 and based in Boston, g...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jan-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479811670)
The role of cultural memory in American identityTerrorism in American Memory argues that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and all that followed in its wake were the primary force shaping United States politics and culture in the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jan-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479811687)
The role of cultural memory in American identityTerrorism in American Memory argues that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and all that followed in its wake were the primary force shaping United States politics and culture in the...Loe edasi...
David Robertson, Peter Wade-Martins, Susanna Wade-Martins
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jan-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780750993661)
Norfolk’s first purpose-written guidebook to the county’s key archaeological sites and historic buildings Norfolk has a wealth of important archaeological sites, historic buildings and historic landscapes. This guide is the first to use them...Loe edasi...
This is a book for people who are interested in statues . . . and for people who arent. It explores those immortalised in marble and bronze - and what the rest of us think about them. As Roger Lytollis travels Britain he encounters a man...Loe edasi...
