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xvii, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
What remains : everyday encounters with the socialist past in Germany / Jonathan Bach.
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New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
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136 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
[Zürich] : Nieves, [2021]
Archiv Peter Piller : Materialien (J) : Peripheriewanderung Bremen / herausgegeben von Ingo Clauss und Anne Thurmann-Jajes für die Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst mit dem Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen
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[Zürich] : Nieves, [2021]
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A decimated Shiite shrine in Iraq. The smoking World Trade Center site. The scorched cityscape of 1945 Dresden. Among the most indelible scars left by war is the destroyed landscapes, and such architectural devastation damages far more than mere buildings. Robert Bevan argues here that shattered buildings are not merely “collateral damage,” but rather calculated acts of(...)
February 2007, London
The destruction of memory : Architecture at war
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A decimated Shiite shrine in Iraq. The smoking World Trade Center site. The scorched cityscape of 1945 Dresden. Among the most indelible scars left by war is the destroyed landscapes, and such architectural devastation damages far more than mere buildings. Robert Bevan argues here that shattered buildings are not merely “collateral damage,” but rather calculated acts of cultural annihilation. From Hitler’s Kristallnacht to the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in the Iraq War, Bevan deftly sifts through military campaigns and their tactics throughout history, and analyzes the cultural impact and catastrophic consequences of architectural destruction. For Bevan, these actions are nothing less than cultural genocide. Ultimately, Bevan forcefully argues for the prosecution of nations that purposely flout established international treaties against destroyed architecture. A passionate and thought-provoking cri de coeur, The Destruction of Memory raises questions about the costs of war that run deeper than blood and money.
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Link Editions 2014
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287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 27 x 27 cm
Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Art Gallery of Ontario ; Montreal, Quebec, Canada : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts ; Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada : Goose Lane Editions, 2025., ©2025
Joyce Wieland : heart on / edited by Anne Grace + Georgiana Uhlyarik.
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287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 27 x 27 cm
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Art Gallery of Ontario ; Montreal, Quebec, Canada : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts ; Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada : Goose Lane Editions, 2025., ©2025
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This pioneering volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as well as human history of the Anthropocene. Focusing on the Arctic as an archive means not only to investigate it as a place of human history and memory—of Arctic exploring, conquering, and colonizing—but to take into account also the specific(...)
Environment and environmental theory
January 2020
Arctic archives: ice, memory and entropy
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This pioneering volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as well as human history of the Anthropocene. Focusing on the Arctic as an archive means not only to investigate it as a place of human history and memory—of Arctic exploring, conquering, and colonizing—but to take into account also the specific environmental conditions of the circumpolar region: ice and permafrost. These have allowed a huge natural archive to emerge, offering rich sources for natural scientists and historians alike. Examining the debate on the notion of ('natural') archive, the cultural semantics and historicity of the meaning of concepts like 'warm,' 'cold,' 'freezing,' and 'melting,' as well as various works of literature, art, and science on Arctic topics, this volume brings together literary scholars, historians of knowledge and philosophy, art historians, media theorists, and archivologists.
Environment and environmental theory
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The art of Anselm Kiefer is rich with references to writers, philosophers, and poets, and his relationship with Paul Celan has been the most complex and intense of these dialogues with the past. Celan's poetry, inextricably linked with the memory of the Holocaust, has haunted Kiefer's work for more than twenty-five years and has influenced him on every level, from the(...)
Anselm Kiefer, Paul Celan, Myth, Mourning and Memory
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The art of Anselm Kiefer is rich with references to writers, philosophers, and poets, and his relationship with Paul Celan has been the most complex and intense of these dialogues with the past. Celan's poetry, inextricably linked with the memory of the Holocaust, has haunted Kiefer's work for more than twenty-five years and has influenced him on every level, from the naming of works and exhibitions to the incorporation of symbolic materials from Celan's imagery—sand, straw, hair, and ashes—into his paintings. Like other German artists of his generation, Kiefer began by questioning his own artistic heritage, focusing on the iconographic and mythological elements of German culture that had been taken over by Nazi propaganda, and subsequently repressed and buried deep in the collective unconscious. It was his encounter with Celan's work in the early 1980s that first enabled him to escape from the vicious circle of fascination and disgust at the cultural ties that bound him to the Third Reich, leading him to confront the subject of the Holocaust and Jewish memory as a whole and to embrace this body of traditions within his art. Magnificently illustrated throughout with reproductions of Kiefer's best-known works, this book explores the intricate web of associations between the poet and the painter, a network that is extended to embrace other artistic and literary figures such as Ingeborg Bachmann and Joseph Beuys. 157 illustrations, 140 in color.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Adam Chodzko: Ooze Too.
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1 online resource.
[Place of publication not identified] : Raven Row, 2014.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Raven Row, 2014.
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76 pages ; 20 cm
[Paris] : Le Tripode, [2014], ©2014
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[Paris] : Le Tripode, [2014], ©2014
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In Re-collection, Richard Rinehart and JonIppolito argue that the vulnerability of new media art illustrates a larger crisis for social memory. They describe a variable media approach to rescuing new media,distributed across producers and consumers who can choose appropriate strategies for each endangered work. New media art poses novel preservation and conservation(...)
Re-collection: art, new media, and social memory
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In Re-collection, Richard Rinehart and JonIppolito argue that the vulnerability of new media art illustrates a larger crisis for social memory. They describe a variable media approach to rescuing new media,distributed across producers and consumers who can choose appropriate strategies for each endangered work. New media art poses novel preservation and conservation dilemmas. Given the ephemerality of their mediums, software art, installation art, and interactive games may be heading to obsolescence and oblivion.
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