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In this book the cultural critic Marita Sturken argues that over the past two decades, Americans have responded to national trauma through consumerism, kitsch sentiment, and tourist practices in ways that reveal a tenacious investment in the idea of America’s innocence. Sturken investigates the consumerism that followed from the September 11th attacks; the contentious,(...)
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In this book the cultural critic Marita Sturken argues that over the past two decades, Americans have responded to national trauma through consumerism, kitsch sentiment, and tourist practices in ways that reveal a tenacious investment in the idea of America’s innocence. Sturken investigates the consumerism that followed from the September 11th attacks; the contentious,(...)
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Transportation, Tourism, Migration
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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November 2007, Durham
November 2007, Durham
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Tourists of History: memory, kitsch, and consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero
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In this book the cultural critic Marita Sturken argues that over the past two decades, Americans have responded to national trauma through consumerism, kitsch sentiment, and tourist practices in ways that reveal a tenacious investment in the idea of America’s innocence. Sturken investigates the consumerism that followed from the September 11th attacks; the contentious, ongoing debates about memorials and celebrity-architect designed buildings at Ground Zero; and two outcomes of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City: the Oklahoma City National Memorial and the execution of Timothy McVeigh. Sturken contends that a consumer culture of comfort objects such as World Trade Center snow globes, FDNY teddy bears, and Oklahoma City Memorial t-shirts and branded water, as well as reenactments of traumatic events in memorial and architectural designs, enables a national tendency to see U.S. culture as distant from both history and world politics. A kitsch comfort culture contributes to a “tourist” relationship to history: Americans can feel good about visiting and buying souvenirs at sites of national mourning without having to engage with the economic, social, and political causes of the violent events. While arguing for the importance of remembering tragic losses of life, Sturken is urging attention to a dangerous confluence—of memory, tourism, consumerism, paranoia, security, and kitsch—that promulgates fear to sell safety, offers prepackaged emotion at the expense of critical thought, contains alternative politics, and facilitates public acquiescence in the federal government’s repressive measures at home and its aggressive political and military policies abroad.
Tourists of History: memory, kitsch, and consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero
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In this book the cultural critic Marita Sturken argues that over the past two decades, Americans have responded to national trauma through consumerism, kitsch sentiment, and tourist practices in ways that reveal a tenacious investment in the idea of America’s innocence. Sturken investigates the consumerism that followed from the September 11th attacks; the contentious, ongoing debates about memorials and celebrity-architect designed buildings at Ground Zero; and two outcomes of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City: the Oklahoma City National Memorial and the execution of Timothy McVeigh. Sturken contends that a consumer culture of comfort objects such as World Trade Center snow globes, FDNY teddy bears, and Oklahoma City Memorial t-shirts and branded water, as well as reenactments of traumatic events in memorial and architectural designs, enables a national tendency to see U.S. culture as distant from both history and world politics. A kitsch comfort culture contributes to a “tourist” relationship to history: Americans can feel good about visiting and buying souvenirs at sites of national mourning without having to engage with the economic, social, and political causes of the violent events. While arguing for the importance of remembering tragic losses of life, Sturken is urging attention to a dangerous confluence—of memory, tourism, consumerism, paranoia, security, and kitsch—that promulgates fear to sell safety, offers prepackaged emotion at the expense of critical thought, contains alternative politics, and facilitates public acquiescence in the federal government’s repressive measures at home and its aggressive political and military policies abroad.
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November 2007, Durham
November 2007, Durham
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Transportation, Tourism, Migration
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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'Peter Eisenman : barefoot on white-hot walls' - published on the occasion of the eponymous personal exhibition at the MAK Vienna - gives a profound insight into the work of Peter Eisenman. The main focus is on Eisenman's most recent projects, such as the 'City of culture of Galicia' in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and the 'Memorial of the murdered Jews in Europe' in(...)
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'Peter Eisenman : barefoot on white-hot walls' - published on the occasion of the eponymous personal exhibition at the MAK Vienna - gives a profound insight into the work of Peter Eisenman. The main focus is on Eisenman's most recent projects, such as the 'City of culture of Galicia' in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and the 'Memorial of the murdered Jews in Europe' in(...)
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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March 2005, Vienna
March 2005, Vienna
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Peter Eisenman : barefoot on white-hot walls
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'Peter Eisenman : barefoot on white-hot walls' - published on the occasion of the eponymous personal exhibition at the MAK Vienna - gives a profound insight into the work of Peter Eisenman. The main focus is on Eisenman's most recent projects, such as the 'City of culture of Galicia' in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and the 'Memorial of the murdered Jews in Europe' in Berlin, Germany.
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'Peter Eisenman : barefoot on white-hot walls' - published on the occasion of the eponymous personal exhibition at the MAK Vienna - gives a profound insight into the work of Peter Eisenman. The main focus is on Eisenman's most recent projects, such as the 'City of culture of Galicia' in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and the 'Memorial of the murdered Jews in Europe' in Berlin, Germany.
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March 2005, Vienna
March 2005, Vienna
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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Stanley Saitowitz
Stanley Saitowitz
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This recent monograph presents the work of San Francisco-based architect Stanley Saitowitz. Comprehensive in scope, it begins with his earliest work in South Africa and continues up to his recent projects,(...)
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This recent monograph presents the work of San Francisco-based architect Stanley Saitowitz. Comprehensive in scope, it begins with his earliest work in South Africa and continues up to his recent projects,(...)
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Stanley Saitowitz
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This recent monograph presents the work of San Francisco-based architect Stanley Saitowitz. Comprehensive in scope, it begins with his earliest work in South Africa and continues up to his recent projects, including the California Museum of Photography in Riverside, Mill Race Park in Columbus, Indiana, and the award-winning design for the New England Holocaust Memorial, to be built next to the Boston City Hall.
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This recent monograph presents the work of San Francisco-based architect Stanley Saitowitz. Comprehensive in scope, it begins with his earliest work in South Africa and continues up to his recent projects, including the California Museum of Photography in Riverside, Mill Race Park in Columbus, Indiana, and the award-winning design for the New England Holocaust Memorial, to be built next to the Boston City Hall.
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October 1995, New York
October 1995, New York
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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Organized geographically, the book begins with numerous art institutions in and around Tokyo, and proceeds to Kyoto; museums in the western and eastern parts of the nation; Shikoku and the Inland Sea; Kyushu; and Hokkaido and Okinawa. Among the buildings and collections featured are the Nezu Museum, the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum, Nagi MOCA, the Hiroshige Museum, the(...)
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Organized geographically, the book begins with numerous art institutions in and around Tokyo, and proceeds to Kyoto; museums in the western and eastern parts of the nation; Shikoku and the Inland Sea; Kyushu; and Hokkaido and Okinawa. Among the buildings and collections featured are the Nezu Museum, the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum, Nagi MOCA, the Hiroshige Museum, the(...)
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The art lover's guide to Japanese museums
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Organized geographically, the book begins with numerous art institutions in and around Tokyo, and proceeds to Kyoto; museums in the western and eastern parts of the nation; Shikoku and the Inland Sea; Kyushu; and Hokkaido and Okinawa. Among the buildings and collections featured are the Nezu Museum, the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum, Nagi MOCA, the Hiroshige Museum, the George Nakashima Memorial Museum, and the Hokkaido Historical Village.
The art lover's guide to Japanese museums
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Organized geographically, the book begins with numerous art institutions in and around Tokyo, and proceeds to Kyoto; museums in the western and eastern parts of the nation; Shikoku and the Inland Sea; Kyushu; and Hokkaido and Okinawa. Among the buildings and collections featured are the Nezu Museum, the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum, Nagi MOCA, the Hiroshige Museum, the George Nakashima Memorial Museum, and the Hokkaido Historical Village.
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October 2019
October 2019
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Museums and Universal Exhibitions
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
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On the Beyond is a far-reaching conversation between the Los Angeles-based artists Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw and art historian John C. Welchman. Touching on religion, dreams, hallucination, UFOs and other forms of experiential or speculative transcendence, the trio also discusses the American landscape and the sublime, utopian and memorial architectures, and the defiantly(...)
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On the Beyond is a far-reaching conversation between the Los Angeles-based artists Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw and art historian John C. Welchman. Touching on religion, dreams, hallucination, UFOs and other forms of experiential or speculative transcendence, the trio also discusses the American landscape and the sublime, utopian and memorial architectures, and the defiantly(...)
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On the beyond: A conversation between Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, and John C. Welchman
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On the Beyond is a far-reaching conversation between the Los Angeles-based artists Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw and art historian John C. Welchman. Touching on religion, dreams, hallucination, UFOs and other forms of experiential or speculative transcendence, the trio also discusses the American landscape and the sublime, utopian and memorial architectures, and the defiantly complex capacity of art itself to go beyond.
On the beyond: A conversation between Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, and John C. Welchman
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On the Beyond is a far-reaching conversation between the Los Angeles-based artists Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw and art historian John C. Welchman. Touching on religion, dreams, hallucination, UFOs and other forms of experiential or speculative transcendence, the trio also discusses the American landscape and the sublime, utopian and memorial architectures, and the defiantly complex capacity of art itself to go beyond.
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May 2011
May 2011
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xiii, 144 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 1998., ©1998
Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 1998., ©1998
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Written in stone : public monuments in changing societies / Sanford Levinson.
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xiii, 144 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 1998., ©1998
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61 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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New York, NY : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the United States and Canada by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, ©2007.
New York, NY : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the United States and Canada by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, ©2007.
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Life of the city : New York photographs from the Museum of Modern Art / edited by Sarah Hermanson Meister.
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61 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Life of the city : New York photographs from the Museum of Modern Art / edited by Sarah Hermanson Meister.
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New York, NY : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the United States and Canada by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, ©2007.
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226 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 x 31 cm
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New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.
New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.
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The greatest grid : the master plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 / edited by Hilary Ballon.
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226 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 x 31 cm
The greatest grid : the master plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 / edited by Hilary Ballon.
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New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.
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[Place of publication not identified] : The Funambulist, 2019.
[Place of publication not identified] : The Funambulist, 2019.
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[Place of publication not identified] : The Funambulist, 2019.
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How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? James E. Young--the only foreigner and the only Jew to serve on the German commission to select a design for a national Holocaust memorial--tells the inside story of this enormously controversial project. Young also inquires deeply into the moral and aesthetic questions surrounding(...)
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How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? James E. Young--the only foreigner and the only Jew to serve on the German commission to select a design for a national Holocaust memorial--tells the inside story of this enormously controversial project. Young also inquires deeply into the moral and aesthetic questions surrounding(...)
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At memory's edge : after-images of the Holocaust in contemporary art and architecture
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How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? James E. Young--the only foreigner and the only Jew to serve on the German commission to select a design for a national Holocaust memorial--tells the inside story of this enormously controversial project. Young also inquires deeply into the moral and aesthetic questions surrounding artistic representations of the Holocaust produced by young artists who themselves did not experience it.
At memory's edge : after-images of the Holocaust in contemporary art and architecture
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How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? James E. Young--the only foreigner and the only Jew to serve on the German commission to select a design for a national Holocaust memorial--tells the inside story of this enormously controversial project. Young also inquires deeply into the moral and aesthetic questions surrounding artistic representations of the Holocaust produced by young artists who themselves did not experience it.
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April 2002, New Haven
April 2002, New Haven
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
