Description: Further DetailsTitle: Miniature MonumentsCondition: NewSubtitle: Modeling German HistoryISBN-10: 3110553015EAN: 9783110553017ISBN: 9783110553017Publisher: De GruyterFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/26/2017Description: Miniature Monuments: Modeling German History offers a series of essays on small-scale models of bombed out cities. Created between 1946 and the present, these plastic renderings of places provide eerie glimpses of destruction and devastation resulting of the air war. This study thus permits fresh angles on post-war responses to the compounded losses of WW II, and it does so through considering these “miniature monuments” (of, among others, Frankfurt, Munich, Schwetzingen, Heilbronn and Hiroshima) in a deep cultural history that interlaces the sixteenth, eighteenth, and twentieth centuries. Three-dimensional renderings in diminutive size have rarely been subjected to rigorous theoretical reflection. Conventionally, models, whether of ruins or intact spaces, have been assumed to be “easily legible”; that is, they have been assumed to be vehicles of the authentic. Yet rubble and other models should be theorized as complex simulacra of abstract realities and catalysts of memories. Miniature Monuments thus tackles a haunting paradox: building ruins. The book elucidates how utterly contingent processes of crumbling and collapse (the English words for the Latin ruina) came to command such great interest in modern Europe that tremendous efforts were taken to uncover, render, and, most of all, recreate ruins. Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: DEItem Height: 155mmItem Length: 230mmItem Weight: 617gAuthor: Helmut PuffGenre: HistoryBook Series: Media and Cultural MemoryTopic: Language & ReferenceRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Miniature Monuments
Title: Miniature Monuments
Subtitle: Modeling German History
ISBN-10: 3110553015
EAN: 9783110553017
ISBN: 9783110553017
Release Date: 06/26/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: DE
Item Height: 155mm
Genre: History
Topic: Language & Reference
Number of Pages: 310 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Miniature Monuments : Modeling German History
Publisher: DE Gruyter Gmbh, Walter
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: Europe / Germany, General, Modern / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.8 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Travel, History
Author: Helmut Puff
Item Length: 6.1 in
Item Width: 9.1 in
Series: Media and Cultural Memory Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
