Monuments For Posterity
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Author |
: Antony Kalashnikov |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 215 |
Release |
: 2023-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501768651 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501768654 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Monuments for Posterity by : Antony Kalashnikov
Monuments for Posterity challenges the common assumption that Stalinist monuments were constructed with an immediate, propagandistic function, arguing instead that they were designed to memorialize the present for an imagined posterity. In this respect, even while pursuing its monument-building program with a singular ruthlessness and on an unprecedented scale, the Stalinist regime was broadly in step with transnational monument-building trends of the era and their undergirding cultural dynamics. By integrating approaches from cultural history, art criticism, and memory studies, along with previously unexplored archival material, Antony Kalashnikov examines the origin and implementation of the Stalinist monument-building program from the perspective of its goal to "immortalize the memory" of the era. He analyzes how this objective affected the design and composition of Stalinist monuments, what cultural factors prompted the sudden and powerful yearning to be remembered, and most importantly, what the culture of self-commemoration revealed about changing outlooks on the future—both in the Soviet Union and beyond its borders. Monuments for Posterity shifts the perspective from monuments' political-ideological content to the desire to be remembered and prompts a much-needed reconsideration of the supposed uniqueness of both Stalinist aesthetics and the temporal culture that they expressed. Many Stalinist monuments still stand prominently in postsocialist cityscapes and remain the subject of continual heated political controversy. Kalashnikov makes manifest monuments' intentional attempts to seduce us—the "posterity" for whom they were built.
Author |
: James L. Cooper |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 1987 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:17532323 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Iron Monuments to Distant Posterity by : James L. Cooper
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Total Pages |
: 666 |
Release |
: 1822 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:555023622 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral, & philosophical knowledge. Vol.1-12. 2nd ser. (ed. by S. Drew). Vol.1-4 by :
Author |
: Edmund Thomas |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 406 |
Release |
: 2007-11-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191558436 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191558435 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Monumentality and the Roman Empire by : Edmund Thomas
The quality of 'monumentality' is attributed to the buildings of few historical epochs or cultures more frequently or consistently than to those of the Roman Empire. It is this quality that has helped to make them enduring models for builders of later periods. This extensively illustrated book, the first full-length study of the concept of monumentality in Classical Antiquity, asks what it is that the notion encompasses and how significant it was for the Romans themselves in moulding their individual or collective aspirations and identities. Although no single word existed in antiquity for the qualities that modern authors regard as making up that term, its Latin derivation - from monumentum, 'a monument' - attests plainly to the presence of the concept in the mentalities of ancient Romans, and the development of that notion through the Roman era laid the foundation for the classical ideal of monumentality, which reached a height in early modern Europe. This book is also the first full-length study of architecture in the Antonine Age - when it is generally agreed the Roman Empire was at its height. By exploring the public architecture of Roman Italy and both Western and Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire from the point of view of the benefactors who funded such buildings, the architects who designed them, and the public who used and experienced them, Edmund Thomas analyses the reasons why Roman builders sought to construct monumental buildings and uncovers the close link between architectural monumentality and the identity and ideology of the Roman Empire itself.
Author |
: Heinrich Ewald |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 506 |
Release |
: 1869 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89080132772 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Introduction and preliminary history. 2d ed by : Heinrich Ewald
Author |
: Roland Miller |
Publisher |
: UNM Press |
Total Pages |
: 175 |
Release |
: 2016-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780826356260 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0826356265 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Abandoned in Place by : Roland Miller
Stenciled on many of the deactivated facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the evocative phrase “abandoned in place” indicates the structures that have been deserted. Some structures, too solid for any known method of demolition, stand empty and unused in the wake of the early period of US space exploration. Now Roland Miller’s color photographs document the NASA, Air Force, and Army facilities across the nation that once played a crucial role in the space race. Rapidly succumbing to the elements and demolition, most of the blockhouses, launch towers, tunnels, test stands, and control rooms featured in Abandoned in Place are located at secure military or NASA facilities with little or no public access. Some have been repurposed, but over half of the facilities photographed no longer exist. The haunting images collected here impart artistic insight while preserving an important period in history.
Author |
: Alexander Leeper |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 132 |
Release |
: 1891 |
ISBN-10 |
: PRNC:32101062107139 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Historical Handbook to the Monuments, Inscriptions, &c., of the National Collegiate and Cathedral Church of S. Patrick, Dublin by : Alexander Leeper
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: Alexander Leeper |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 128 |
Release |
: 1891 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:590591553 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Historical Handbook to the Monuments, Inscriptions, &c. of the Collegiate, National and Cathedral Church of St. Patrick, Dublin by : Alexander Leeper
Author |
: Georg Heinrich August von Ewald |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 460 |
Release |
: 1869 |
ISBN-10 |
: NLS:V000620619 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The History of Israel to the Death of Moses. Translated from the German by : Georg Heinrich August von Ewald
Author |
: Charles Philip Kains- Jackson |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 136 |
Release |
: 1880 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:590530042 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Ancient Monuments and the Land Around Them by : Charles Philip Kains- Jackson
Records of the prehistoric ruins of Britain (with Ireland), including Stonehenge, Old Sarum, the Ring of Brogar, and the Hill of Tara.