Urban memory and visual culture in Berlin framing the asynchronous city, 1957-2012

"This book examines the crucial role of visual culture (architecture, memorials, photography and film) in shaping Berlin's urban memory culture in both East and West in reponse to the changing political, social and economic organization of the built environment over the past five decades

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1. Verfasser: Ward, Simon (VerfasserIn)
Körperschaft: Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2016
Schriftenreihe:Cities and cultures
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Zusammenfassung:"This book examines the crucial role of visual culture (architecture, memorials, photography and film) in shaping Berlin's urban memory culture in both East and West in reponse to the changing political, social and economic organization of the built environment over the past five decades
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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-203) and index
Beschreibung:212 Seiten
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ISBN:9789089648532
978-90-8964-853-2
9089648534
90-8964-853-4