Title & Author:

Visite aux armées : tourismes de guerre = Back to the front : tourisms of war / conçu et réalisé par/edited by Diller + Scofidio ; [essays by] Jean-Louis Déotte [and others].

Publication:

[Caen?] : F.R.A.C. Basse-Normandie ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Princeton Architectural Press, ©1994.

Description:

329 pages : illustrations (some color)

Notes:
Text in English and French.
Includes bibliographical references.
SuitCase studies : the production of a national past = SuitCase studies : la production d'un passé national / Diller + Scofidio -- Un monde sans horizon = A world with no horizon / Jean-Louis Déotte -- Live from ... = En direct de ... / Thomas Keenan -- Le corps étendu : chronique d'un jour sans histoire = The extended body : chronicle of a day with no history / Frédéric Migarou -- Lust for loss = Vivre sa perte / Lynee Tillman -- Armored sights/sites blindés = Sites blindés/Armored sights / Georges Van den Abbeele -- Hostility into hospitality = Hostilité et hospitalité / Diller + Scofidio.
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Summary:

"Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of D-Day, Back to the Front is designed by the collaborative team Diller + Scofidio (see also Flesh) and includes their newest project, sited on the tour route of the five D-Day beaches. Seductive in its design and production, Back to the Front provides critical analyses of the complex relationship between tourism and war as related forms of conquest.--Back to the Front is comprised of three sections. The first presents suitCase Studies: the Production of a National Past, an installation by Diller + Scofidio exhibited in the U.S. and France. The second portion consists of original texts on the theme of war and tourism by five contemporary authors, whose fields range from hilosophy to cultural theory to fiction: George Van den Abbeele envisages "Militarism and Tourism as transcultural forms of invasion in competition with each other"; Jean-Louis D otte shows that "tourism no longer feeds solely on the wartime event . . . it is no longer soft, contemporary form of conquest . . . Tourism, rather, becomes an essential military objective"; Thomas Keenan interrogates the hyper-mediatization of these same wars "as proof of the birth of new strategic requirements, cultural and media-oriented alike, for military strategies"; Frederick Migayrou inquires into "a territorial application, the landings and mechanics behind them, so as to enhance, in negative relief, an impossible psychology of combat, one that arises from a procedural complexity leading the body to . . . its total destruction"; and Lynne Tillman offers the novella "Lust for Loss." The final section of the book is Diller + Scofidio's project: in full color, these five fold-out documents (one for each beach), deploy hybrid photo-drawings and text-weaves to probe the relationship between these confrontations."--Publisher's description.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

1568980140
9781568980140
295059400X
9782950594006

Subject:

War.
Travel.
Military history, Modern.
World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns France Normandy.
Guerre.
Voyage.
Histoire militaire moderne et contemporaine.
travel.
Military campaigns
Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Toerisme.
Cultuursociologie.
Normandy (France) History, Military.
France Normandy

Form/genre:

Military history
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Diller, Elizabeth.
Scofidio, Ricardo.
Diller + Scofidio.

Back to the front

Holdings:

Location: Library main 82160
Call No.: ID U21.V54; ID:95-B2881
Status: Available

Location: Library main 82159
Call No.: ID PLB U21.V54; ID:95-B2881
Status: Available