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Book Objects of Remembrance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Monroe E. Price
  • Publisher : Central European University Press
  • Release : 2009-01-01
  • ISBN : 9789639776593
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Objects of Remembrance written by Monroe E. Price and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiography of how to become an American during the 1940-50's.

Book Objects of Remembrance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Monroe E. Price
  • Publisher : Central European University Press
  • Release : 2009-01-01
  • ISBN : 9639776599
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Objects of Remembrance written by Monroe E. Price and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiography of how to become an American during the 1940-50's.

Book Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts

Download or read book Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts written by Jonathan Mogul and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 10 essays offer an interdisciplinary approach to objects of remembrance during the modern era. They investigate the roles such items played in individual lives and larger communities, as well as the strategies that artists, designers, and manufacturers used to produce objects that could serve these functions.

Book Objects of Remembrance

Download or read book Objects of Remembrance written by Levi Pease Smith and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts

Download or read book Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts written by Jonathan Mogul and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 10 essays offer an interdisciplinary approach to objects of remembrance during the modern era. They investigate the roles such items played in individual lives and larger communities, as well as the strategies that artists, designers, and manufacturers used to produce objects that could serve these functions.

Book Objects of Remembrance  Contemporary Mourning Jewelry

Download or read book Objects of Remembrance Contemporary Mourning Jewelry written by M. Simon and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Archaeologies of Remembrance

Download or read book Archaeologies of Remembrance written by Howard Williams and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did past communities and individuals remember through social and ritual practices? How important were mortuary practices in processes of remembering and forgetting the past? This innovative new research work focuses upon identifying strategies of remembrance. Evidence can be found in a range of archaeological remains including the adornment and alteration of the body in life and death, the production, exchange, consumption and destruction of material culture, the construction, use and reuse of monuments, and the social ordering of architectural space and the landscape. This book shows how in the past, as today, shared memories are important and defining aspects of social and ritual traditions, and the practical actions of dealing with and disposing of the dead can form a central focus for the definition of social memory.

Book The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts

Download or read book The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts written by Sibel Bozdoğan and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest volume of the Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts explores the role of design and decorative arts in the making of modern Turkey, from the late Ottoman Empire to the middle of the twentieth century. As in many countries outside of western Europe and North America, Turkey's encounter with modernity has largely been the result of an official modernization project "from above." In the absence of the material and social conditions-industrialization, capitalist production, urbanization, and the existence of an autonomous bourgeoisie-that characterized the Western world, elites seeking to modernize Turkey had a strong sense of delayed development and an urgent desire to catch up with the West. This sense of urgency accounts for their reliance on the power of representation, especially visual and material culture, to express modern ideas, institutional reform, national identity, and social progress. The resulting experiments touched virtually every creative field, from architecture, painting, and sculpture to interiors, fashion, textiles, industrial design, photography, and graphic design. Creating a modern national identity for Turkey was a vast undertaking with uneven results. In scrutinizing these efforts through multiple lenses, this vividly illustrated volume presents a particularly compelling example of the belief in the capacity of form to remake content. The contributors include Esra Akcan, Günkut Akın, T. Elvan Altan, Edhem Eldem, Ahmet Ersoy, F. Dilek Himam, Ela Kaçel, Sinan Niyazioğlu, Gülname Turan, and Christopher S. Wilson.

Book Death  Materiality and Mediation

Download or read book Death Materiality and Mediation written by Barbara Graham and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Death, Materiality and Mediation, Barbara Graham analyzes a diverse range of objects associated with remembrance in both the public and private arenas through ethnography of communities on both sides of the Irish border. In doing so, she explores the materially mediated interactions between the living and the dead, revealing the physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual roles of the dead in contemporary communities. Through this study, Graham expands the concept of materiality to include narrative, song, senses, emotions, ephemera and embodied experience. She also examines how modern practices are informed by older beliefs and folk religion.

Book Forget Me Not

    Book Details:
  • Author : Geoffrey Batchen
  • Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
  • Release : 2006-08-03
  • ISBN : 9781568986197
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Forget Me Not written by Geoffrey Batchen and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2006-08-03 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Forget Me Not' explores the relationship between photography and memory and shows how ordinary people have sought to strengthen the emotional appeal of photographs, primarily by embellishing them to create strange and often beautiful hybrid objects.

Book Rhetoric  Remembrance  and Visual Form

Download or read book Rhetoric Remembrance and Visual Form written by Anne Teresa Demo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a multifaceted investigation of intersections among visual and memorial forms in modern art, politics, and society. The question of the relationships among images and memory is particularly relevant to contemporary society, at a time when visually-based technologies are increasingly employed in both grand and modest efforts to preserve the past amid rapid social change. The chapters in this book provide valuable insights concerning not only how memories may be seen (or sighted) in visual form but also how visual forms constitute noteworthy material sites of memory. The collection addresses this central theme with a wealth of interdisciplinary and international approaches, featuring conventional scholarly as well as artistic works from such disciplines as rhetoric and communication, art and art history, architecture, landscape studies, and more, by contributors from around the globe.

Book Remembrance of Things Present

Download or read book Remembrance of Things Present written by Nick Yablon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time capsules offer unexpected insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, as well as their duties to future generations. Remembrance of Things Present traces the birth of this device to the Gilded Age, when growing urban volatility prompted doubts about how the period would be remembered—or if it would be remembered at all. Yablon details how diverse Americans – from presidents and mayors to advocates for the rights of women, blacks, and workers – constructed prospective memories of their present. They did so by contributing not just written testimony to time capsules but also sources that historians and archivists considered illegitimate, such as photographs, phonograph records, films, and everyday artifacts. By offering a direct line to posterity, time capsules stimulated various hopes for the future. Remembrance of Things Present delves into these treasure chests to unearth those forgotten futures.

Book Memorial

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gary Crew
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2015-05-13
  • ISBN : 0734416547
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Memorial written by Gary Crew and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving and inspiring story about how we remember the past from two of Australia's most acclaimed picture book creators, Gary Crew and Shaun Tan. When the soldiers return in 1918, a memorial tree is planted ... 'Lest We Forget'. But generations later, what do those who pause in the shadows of the tree's immense branches remember? Gary Crew is well known for his rich, multi-layered and intensely suspenseful bestselling novels for young adults. Four times the winner of the CBC Book of the Year Award, as well as other numerous awards, Gary was a high school English teacher for eighteen years, before turning to university lecturing and full-time writing. He lives in Queensland. Shaun Tan grew up in Perth and graduated from the University of Western Australia with joint honours in Fine Arts and English Literature. He began drawing and painting images for science fiction and horror stories in small-press magazines as a teenager, and has since become best known for illustrated books that deal with social, political and historical subjects through surreal, dream-like imagery. His works include THE RED TREE, THE LOST THING, RULES OF SUMMER and the acclaimed wordless novel THE ARRIVAL. All have been widely translated throughout Europe, Asia and South America, and are enjoyed by readers of all ages.

Book Highcastle

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  • Author : Stanislaw Lem
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2020-02-18
  • ISBN : 0262538466
  • Pages : 151 pages

Download or read book Highcastle written by Stanislaw Lem and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanisław Lem. With Highcastle, Stanisław Lem offers a memoir of his childhood and youth in prewar Lvov. Reflective, artful, witty, playful—“I was a monster,” he observes ruefully—this lively and charming book describes a youth spent reading voraciously (he was especially interested in medical texts and French novels), smashing toys, eating pastries, and being terrorized by insects. Often lonely, the young Lem believed that he could communicate with household objects—perhaps anticipating the sentient machines in the adult Lem's novels. Lem reveals his younger self to be a dreamer, driven by an unbridled imagination and boundless curiosity. In the course of his reminiscing, Lem also ponders the nature of memory, innocence, and the imagination. Highcastle (the title refers to a nearby ruin) offers the portrait of a writer in his formative years.

Book Remnants of Partition

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aanchal Malhotra
  • Publisher : Hurst & Company
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 178738120X
  • Pages : 395 pages

Download or read book Remnants of Partition written by Aanchal Malhotra and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2019 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventy years on, the Partition of India fades from memory. Can it be restored?

Book Memory s Daughters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan M. Stabile
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780801440311
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Memory s Daughters written by Susan M. Stabile and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing equally on material culture and literary history, Stabile discusses how the group used their writings to explore and at times replicate the arrangement of their material possessions, including desks, writing paraphernalia, mirrors, miniatures, beds, and coffins. As she reconstructs the poetics of memory that informed the women's lives and structured their manuscripts, Stabile focuses on vernacular architecture, penmanship, souvenir collecting, and mourning.