Urban memory and visual culture in Berlin framing the asynchronous city, 1957-2012
As sites of turbulence and transformation, cities are machines for forgetting. And yet archiving and exhibiting the presence of the past remains a key cultural, political and economic activity in many urban environments. This book takes the example of Berlin over the past four decades to chart how t...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
2016
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| Schriftenreihe: | Cities and cultures
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Geschichte 1900-2000
> Geschichte 1957-2012
> Collective memory / Germany / Berlin
> Memorials / Germany / Berlin
> Denkmal
> Städtebau
> Kulturelle Identität
> Architektur
> Berlin (Germany) / In motion pictures
> Berlin (Germany) / In art
> Berlin (Germany) / Civilization / 20th century
> Deutschland
> Berlin
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | As sites of turbulence and transformation, cities are machines for forgetting. And yet archiving and exhibiting the presence of the past remains a key cultural, political and economic activity in many urban environments. This book takes the example of Berlin over the past four decades to chart how the memory culture of the city has responded to the challenges and transformations thrown up by the changing political, social and economic organization of the built environment. The book focuses on the visual culture of the city (architecture, memorials, photography and film). It argues that the recovery of the experience of time is central to the practices of an emergent memory culture in a contemporary 'overexposed' city, whose spatial and temporal boundaries have long since disintegrated |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-203) and index |
| Beschreibung: | 212 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9789089648532 978-90-8964-853-2 9089648534 90-8964-853-4 |