The Inhabited Ruins of Central Europe

Re-Imagining Space, History, and Memory
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-30585-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4385 g

Focusing on Central Europe, the volume proposes a new paradigm of how culture works, based on a model of "inhabited ruins" as a space where contradictory elements come together into continually renewed and frequently paradoxical configurations. Examines art, architecture, literature and music.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gafijczuk, D.

Sayer, D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Prologue: The Day the Wall Came Down (American Surreal); Derek Sayer Introduction: Delicate Empiricism; Dariusz Gafijczuk 1. Ruins and Representations of 1989: Exception, Normality, Revolution; Tim Beasley-Murray 2. The Ruins of a Myth or a Myth in Ruins? Freedom and Cohabitation in Central Europe; Paul Blokker 3. Democracy in Ruins: The case of the Hungarian Parliament; Endre Dányi 4. Itinerant Memory Places: The Baader-Meinhof-Wagen; Kimberly Mair 5. Edith Doesn't Live Here Anymore: A Story of Farnsworth House; Yoke-Sum Wong 6. Comments on Comments: Fake Fragments, Fake Ruins, and Genuine Paper Ruination; Jind?ich Toman 7. How We Remember and What We Forget: Art History and the Czech Avant-garde; Derek Sayer 8. Anxious Geographies - Inhabited Traditions; Dariusz Gafijczuk 9. Terezín as Reverse Potemkin Ruin, in Five Movements and an Epilogue; Michael Beckerman 10. Desert Europa and the Sea of Ruins: The Post-Apocalyptic Imagination in Egon Bondy's Afghanistan; Jonathan Bolton 11. History's Loose Ends: Reflections on the Structure of Velvet Revolutions; Peter Zusi

Über Autor(innen)

Tim Beasley-Murray, University College London, UK
Michael Beckerman, New York University, USA
Paul Blokker, University of Trento, Italy
Jonathan Bolton, Harvard University, USA
Endre Dányi, Goethe University, Germany
Kimberly Mair, University of Lethbridge, Canada
Jind?ich Toman, University of Michigan, USA
Yoke-Sum Wong, Lancaster University, USA
Peter Zusi, University College London, UK