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Miniature Monuments : Modeling German History.
This study takes a material object as its starting point: small-scale models of bombed out cities. Created between 1946 and the present, these plastic renderings of places provide eerie glimpses of destruction and devastation resulting of war. This study considers these "miniature monuments&quo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2014.
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| Colección: | Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This study takes a material object as its starting point: small-scale models of bombed out cities. Created between 1946 and the present, these plastic renderings of places provide eerie glimpses of destruction and devastation resulting of war. This study considers these "miniature monuments" in a deep cultural history that interlaces the 16th, 18th, and 20th centuries. Miniature Monuments thus tackles a haunting paradox: building ruins |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (310 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 311036834X 9783110303858 311030385X 3110304090 9783110304091 9783110368345 |