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Modelscapes are clusters of miniature architectural models that represent entire environments. They're frequently found in museums as representations of heritage, architecture, and collective identity. This book offers a critical analysis of modelscapes, using case studies from Israel, to show...

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Autor principal: Padan, Yael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Architectural models.
ARCHITECTURE > General.
Modeles architecturaux > Israël.
Architectural models > Israel.
Israel.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: Narratives into Objects, Objects into Narratives; What are Models?; Modelscapes; Case Studies; 1. The Qualities of Modelscapes; Models and Modern Modes of Perception; Visual Perception as a Product of Social Relations; Visual Objects as Makers of Culture; Historicizing Visual Culture; Contemporary Modes of Vision; Collection and Classification; The Model as Representation; The Copy; Model, Image and Text; Experience, Performance and Play; Models and Architecture; The Perception of Architecture; On Scale and the Body.
  • Interior and Exterior Modelscapes2. Models and Modern Perceptions of Nationalism; The Perception of Time and Modern Nationalism; A Verbal Model: Utopia; Models and the Construction of Collective Identity in Modernity; Theories of the Emergence of Modern National Identity; Modelscapes as Representations of National Space; Modelscapes as Signifiers of National Identity; Time and Enclosure; 3. The Second Temple Model; Designing the Second Temple Model; The Model of Imperial Rome; A Serious Plaything; Authenticity; The Second Temple Model as a Representation of Archaeology.
  • The Second Temple Model and the Protestant PerspectiveRepresenting the Past; A Vision of the Future; Relocating the Model; Who Visits the Second Temple Model?; Updating the Model; 4. Mini Israel; Mini Israel as a Theme Park; The Politics of the Miniature; The Politics of the Site; The Politics of Utopia: Planning the Site; The Politics of the Sign: Choosing the Models; The Political Economy of Mini Israel; The Politics of the Exhibition: Mini Israel at the Israel Museum; The Politics of the Model: A Partial Inventory; 5. The Valley of the Communities; Collective Memory and its Sites.
  • Official Holocaust Memory in IsraelThe Valley of the Communities in the Context of Minimalist Memorials; Yad Vashem and the Mount of Remembrance; The Valley of the Communities; Designing and Building the Site; Remembering and Forgetting; The Memorial Ritual at the Valley of the Communities; Performance and Ritual within Memorial Monuments; Pilgrimages to Holocaust Memorials; The Linking Path March; Conclusions; Representational Modes; Bibliography; Index; List of Illustrations; Figure 1
  • The Second Temple Model, general view; Figure 2
  • Mini Israel theme park, general view.
  • Figure 3
  • "Mini Israel": 70 Models, 45 artists, One Space (exhibition by Larry Abramson), 2006, installation view, Israel Museum, JerusalemFigure 4
  • The Valley of the Communities, by Lipa Yahalom
  • Dan Zur, Landscape Architects; Figure 5
  • Bekonscot Model Village, general view; Figure 6
  • New York Panorama, general view; Figure 7
  • Model of Mont Saint Michel, at the Musee des Plans-Reliefs, Paris; Figure 8
  • The Second Temple Model, general view; Figure 9
  • Detail from the Model of Imperial Rome; Figure 10
  • The Hasmonean Palace, Second Temple Model.
  • Figure 11
  • Second Temple Model at the Israel Museum, Aerial view.

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