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The art of forgetting / edited by Adrian Forty and Susanne Küchler.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Materializing culturePublisher: Oxford : Berg, 1999Description: xiii, 216 s. illISBN:
  • 1859732860
  • 1859732917
  • 9781859732915
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.47 21
Other classification:
  • Ibvz Historiska motiv
  • K.4
  • Bgk
Contents:
Preface / David Lowenthal -- Introduction / Adrian Forty -- pt. I. Ephemeral monuments. 1. Ephemeral monuments, memory and royal sempiternity in a grassfields kingdom / Nicolas Argenti ; 2. The place of memory / Susanne Küchner -- pt. II. Remembering and forgetting in images past. 3. Girodet's Portrait of Citizen Belley, ex-representative of the colonies: in Rembrance of 'Things sublime' / Helen Weston ; 4. Bribing the vote of fame: eighteenth century monuments and the futility of commemoration / David Bindman ; 5. Forgetting Rome and the voice of Piranesi's 'Speaking ruins' / Tarnya Cooper -- pt. III. War memorials. 6. Remember to forget: sublimation as sacrifice in war memorials / Michael Rowlands ; 7. Remembering and forgetting in the public memorials of the Great War / Alex King ; 8. Commemorating 1916, celebrating difference: parading and painting in Belfast / Neil Jarman -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Preface / David Lowenthal -- Introduction / Adrian Forty -- pt. I. Ephemeral monuments. 1. Ephemeral monuments, memory and royal sempiternity in a grassfields kingdom / Nicolas Argenti ; 2. The place of memory / Susanne Küchner -- pt. II. Remembering and forgetting in images past. 3. Girodet's Portrait of Citizen Belley, ex-representative of the colonies: in Rembrance of 'Things sublime' / Helen Weston ; 4. Bribing the vote of fame: eighteenth century monuments and the futility of commemoration / David Bindman ; 5. Forgetting Rome and the voice of Piranesi's 'Speaking ruins' / Tarnya Cooper -- pt. III. War memorials. 6. Remember to forget: sublimation as sacrifice in war memorials / Michael Rowlands ; 7. Remembering and forgetting in the public memorials of the Great War / Alex King ; 8. Commemorating 1916, celebrating difference: parading and painting in Belfast / Neil Jarman -- Bibliography -- Index.

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