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Examines the change in memory regime in postwar France, from one centered on the concentration camps to one centered on the Holocaust.
This innovative study of memorial architecture investigates how design can translate memories of human loss into tangible structures, creating spaces for remembering. Using approaches from history, psychology, anthropology and sociology, Sabina Tanović explores purposes behind creating contemporary memorials in a given location, their translation into architectural concepts, their materialisation in the face of social and political challenges, and their influence on the transmission of memory. Covering the period from the First World War to the present, she looks at memorials such as the Holocaust museums in Mechelen and Drancy, as well as memorials for the victims of terrorist attacks, to unravel the private and public role of memorial architecture and the possibilities of architecture as a form of agency in remembering and dealing with a difficult past. The result is a distinctive contribution to the literature on history and memory, and on architecture as a link to the past.
Bringing together cultural history, visual studies, and media archaeology, Bruno considers the interrelations of projection, atmosphere, and environment. Projection has long been transforming space, from shadow plays to camera obscuras and magic lantern shows. Our fascination with projection is alive on the walls of museums and galleries and woven into our daily lives. Giuliana Bruno explores the histories of projection and atmosphere in visual culture and their continued importance to contemporary artists who are reinventing the projective imagination with atmospheric thinking and the use of elemental media. To explain our fascination with projection and atmosphere, Bruno traverses psychoan...
The subway drawings were a seminal part of Keith Haring's work, not only due to their infamy at the time but because of their lasting effect on the public.This reprint of Keith Haring: 31 Subway Drawings, published by No More Rulers in association with Princeton University Press, offers a unique look into Haring's subway drawings. Various essays from art world: Jeffrey Deitch, Carlo McCormick, and Henry Geldzahler, including one written by Haring himself, are interspersed with images of the drawings.
"This book presents the great mosaic of Parisian art as a "group portrait" of its leading practitioners. Along with portraits by Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, and Duchamp are remarkable works made in Paris by Constantin Brancusi, Jacques Lipchitz, Juan Gris, Diego Rivera, Marie Laurencin, Raymond Duchamp - Villon, Jean Puy, Jean Metzinger, Chana Orloff, Albert Gleizes, Pablo Gargallo, Amedeo Modigliani, Paul Colin, Max Beckmann, Jean Dubuffet, and Chaim Soutine, among others."--BOOK JACKET.
The true story of John Duval Gluck, Jr., who in 1913 founded the Santa Claus Association, which had the sole authority to answer Santa's mail in New York City. He ran the organization for 15 years, gaining fame for making the myth of Santa a reality to poor children by arranging for donors to deliver the toys they requested, until a crusading charity commissioner exposed Gluck as a fraud. The story is wide in scope, interweaving a phony Boy Scout group, kidnapping, stolen artwork, and appearances by the era's biggest stars and New York City’s most famous landmarks. The book is both a personal story and a far-reaching historical one, tracing the history of Christmas celebration in America and the invention of Santa Claus.
Velvet Generation surveys the work of Czech photographers Gabriela Kolcavová, Roman Franc, Igor Malijevský and Vojtech V. Sláma. Accompanying a lauded exhibition at FotoFest, Houston, it is lavishly illustrated with over 90 striking images, and includes texts by exhibition organizer Steven Evans, art historian Miroslav Ambroz, and preeminent photography scholar Anne Wilkes Tucker. This ambitious book offers an investigation of the relationships between these artists and explores their shared visual vocabulary.
The Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was responsible for saving the lives of thousands of Jews in Budapest between 1944 and 1945. He is recognised by the Israeli state as one of the Righteous among the Nations. This book examines both Wallenberg’s activities during the Holocaust and the ways posterity has remembered him. It explores secret Swedish diplomacy and how Wallenberg was transformed over time into a Swedish brand. It considers the political aspects of Wallenberg’s Americanisation and analyses his portrayals in music, film and television. Representations of Wallenberg as a monument are discussed with special reference to Swedish and Hungarian examples. The question of how Wallenberg’s memory can and should be kept alive in future is an essential issue related to the politics of memory.
The official reference for developing and deploying parallel, scalable OpenGL applications based on the Equalizer parallel rendering framework.
Ils se rencontrent à la quarantaine. L'un a déjà écrit, l'autre non, elle a dansé. Peu à peu, s'épaulant, s'encourageant mutuellement, ils vont tout à la fois mêler et séparer leurs écritures, que celles-ci soient universitaires ou littéraires. Vingt ans après, ils racontent cet itinéraire d'un couple d'écrivains. « Copyright Electre »