Title & Author:

Places of commemoration : search for identity and landscape design / edited by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, ©2001.

Description:

436 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Selected papers from the 19th Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture held in 1995.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Come into the garden, Maud" : garden art as a privileged mode of commemoration and identity / John Dixon Hunt -- At home on the other side : African American burials as commemorative landscapes / Grey Gundaker -- Commemoration in the landscape of Minnehaha : "a halo of poetic association" / Daniel Joseph Nadenicek -- The landscape of loved ones / Marc Treib -- The national cemetery system : politics, place, and contemporary cemetery design / Michael A. Stern -- Mount Vernon Memorial Highway : changing conceptions of an American commemorative landscape / Timothy Davis -- Designing memories ... of what? Reading the landscape of the Astronauts Memorial / Carole Blair and Neil Michel -- From World War I cemeteries to the Nazi "fortresses of the dead" : architecture, heroic landscape, and the quest for national identity in Germany / Gunnar Brands -- Perilous landscapes : concentration camp memorials between commemoration and amnesia / Sybil Milton -- The landscape design of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp memorial / Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn -- Sacred ground : martial landscape in American culture / Edward T. Linenthal -- The commemorative landscape of the Vietnam War / Patrick Hagopian -- The garden as narrative : Lawrence Halprin's Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial / Reuben M. Rainey.

Summary:

"Everyone is occupied, consciously or unconsciously, with identity - ones origin and the question of one's place in humankind and society of the past, present, and future. Identity and memory are not stable and objective things, but representations or constructions of reality related to a particular interest, such as class, gender, of power relations. Identity is problematic without history and without the commemoration of history, and of course such remembrance may distort historical events and facts. When dealing with gardens, a substantial part of our physical environment, there are always unspoken questions of identity." Places of Commemoration examines commemorative sites of different character, including gardens, landscapes, memorials, cemeteries, and sites of former Nazi concentration camps, detailing the ideas behind the creation of memorials and monuments and the struggles over the narratives they present. -- Book Jacket.

ISBN:

0884022609 (alk. paper)
9780884022602 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Gardens Symbolic aspects Congresses.
Landscape design Congresses.
Memorials Congresses.
Jardins Aspect symbolique Congrès.
Aménagement paysager Congrès.
Monuments commémoratifs Congrès.
02.01 history of science and culture.
Gardens Symbolic aspects.
Landscape design.
Memorials.
Landschapsarchitectuur.
Nationale identiteit.
Jardins.
Architecture du paysage.
Monuments commémoratifs 20e siècle.

Form/genre:

Congress
Proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Congresses (form)
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim.
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (19th : 1995)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 224570
Call No.: SB470.7 .P58 2001
Status: Available