Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade

Margaret Olin Robert S Nelson

ISBN 10: 0226571580 / ISBN 13: 9780226571584

Published by University of Chicago Press, 2004

About this Item

pp. 360 Index.

Seller Inventory # 26682977

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226571580
• ISBN 13: 9780226571584
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

How do some monuments become so socially powerful that people seek to destroy them? After ignoring monuments for years, why must we now commemorate public trauma, but not triumph, with a monument? To explore these and other questions, Robert S. Nelson and Margaret Olin assembled essays from leading scholars about how monuments have functioned throughout the world and how globalization has challenged Western notions of the "monument."

Examining how monuments preserve memory, these essays demonstrate how phenomena as diverse as ancient drum towers in China and ritual whale-killings in the Pacific Northwest serve to represent and negotiate time. Connecting that history to the present with an epilogue on the World Trade Center, Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade is pertinent not only for art historians but for anyone interested in the turbulent history of monuments—a history that is still very much with us today.

Contributors:
Stephen Bann, Jonathan Bordo, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Jas Elsner, Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Robert S. Nelson, Margaret Olin, Ruth B. Phillips, Mitchell Schwarzer, Lillian Lan-ying Tseng, Richard Wittman, Wu Hung

About the Author

Margaret Olin is a senior research scholar in the Divinity School, with joint appointments in the Departments of History of Art and Religious Studies and in the Program in Judaic Studies at Yale University.