The Everyday Life of Memorials
- Media Studies
- Categories:Politics & Government
- Language:English(Translation Services Available)
- Publication date:September,2022
- Pages:432
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“In the agony of temporality, the urge to engrave time in solid rock, like millions of years old fossilized ammonites, is as old as humanity. We solidify time, retain memory, and orchestrate commemoration in memorials, the oldest and yet most ridiculous form of public manipulation. Solidified urban monoliths then suddenly erupt into volcanos, like predators waited for prey. In between its erection and its overthrow, day by day, century by century, the memorial quietly ripples on. The Everyday Life of Memorials turns that unspoken memorial upside down. It makes the monumental silence speak. In fact, Andrew Shanken shows us the memorial as we know it best.”—Hans van Houwelingen, visual artist
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Andrew M. Shanken is Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of 194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front and Into the Void Pacific: Building the 1939 San Francisco World’s Fair.
Contents
introduction Memorials No More 17
i Everyday Memory 37
ii Labile Memory 77
iii Placing Memory: Cemeteries and Parks 107
iv Misplacing Memory: Memorials in Circles, Squares, and Medians 149
v Displacing Memory 175
vi Mustering Memory 205
vii Assembling Memory 233
viii What We Do at Memorials 259
ix What Memorials Do at Memorials 281
conclusion What Is This? 321
Acknowledgments 353
Notes 355
Works Cited 401
Index 419