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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lucia Allais |
ISBN: | 9780226286556 022628655X |
OCLC Number: | 1099301872 |
Description: | 347 s. : ill. delvis i farver |
Contents: | Introduction: monument survival -- "Wardens of civilization": conservation and diplomacy at the 1931 Athens Conference -- "Battles designed to preserve": the allies' lists of monuments in World War II -- Unwitting city planning: maps of monuments and the American bombing of Europe, 1943-1945 -- Bridge: let's visit UNESCO house -- "Stones also die": UNESCO and the decolonization of museums, 1960-1975 -- Integrities: the salvage of Abu Simbel, 1960-1980 -- Coda: viscosities |
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Lucia Allais has written an extraordinary book, an account of monuments in modernity as they are laboriously assembled and then bombed into smithereens. Targeted and preserved, conceptualized, revered, disdained--Allais shows just how polymorphic these perverse stones can be. Interested in collective memory, recent architecture, international culture or public art? Read this.--Peter Galison, Harvard University Read more...
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