Puff Miniature Monuments

Modeling German History
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-11-030409-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 17, 310 Seiten

Reihe: Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle ErinnerungISSN

offers a series of essays on small-scale models of bombed out cities. Created between 1946 and the present, these plastic renderings of places provide eerie glimpses of destruction and devastation resulting of the air war. This study thus permits fresh angles on post-war responses to the compounded losses of WW II, and it does so through considering these “miniature monuments” (of, among others, Frankfurt, Munich, Schwetzingen, Heilbronn and Hiroshima) in a deep cultural history that interlaces the sixteenth, eighteenth, and twentieth centuries.

Three-dimensional renderings in diminutive size have rarely been subjected to rigorous theoretical reflection. Conventionally, models, whether of ruins or intact spaces, have been assumed to be “easily legible”; that is, they have been assumed to be vehicles of the authentic. Yet rubble and other models should be theorized as complex simulacra of abstract realities and catalysts of memories. thus tackles a haunting paradox: building ruins. The book elucidates how utterly contingent processes of crumbling and collapse (the English words for the Latin ) came to command such great interest in modern Europe that tremendous efforts were taken to uncover, render, and, most of all, recreate ruins.

Zielgruppe

Kulturwissenschaftler und -historiker; Stadthistoriker; Kunsthist / Scholars of Cultural Studies, Cultural History, Urban History and

Autoren/Hrsg.

Puff, Helmut

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgments;5
2;Contents;7
3;List of Illustrations;9
4;Chapter One;11
4.1;Introduction;13
4.1.1;Air War and Representation;20
4.1.2;Rubble Models and the Ruins Code;29
4.1.3;This Book;37
5;Chapter Two;43
5.1;Rubble City, Frankfurt;47
5.1.1;The Memory of Material Loss;52
5.1.2;Modeling the Past, Present, and Future;59
5.1.3;Monumental Efforts;73
6;Chapter Three;91
6.1;Cities as Models in Munich;95
6.1.1;A Rare and Marvellous Object;97
6.1.2;Visual Technologies of Urban Space;101
6.1.3;Modeling Bavaria;104
6.1.4;Mastery through Models and the Lathe;114
6.1.5;The Politics of Urbanism;122
7;Chapter Four;137
7.1;Schwetzingen’s Built Ruins;141
7.1.1;Fascination with Ruins;143
7.1.2;Arcadia on the Rhine;154
7.1.3;Miniature Ruins;172
8;Chapter Five;181
8.1;From Rubble to Ruins in Heilbronn and Elsewhere;185
8.1.1;Modeling Urban Destruction;190
8.1.2;Shaping Public Commemoration;204
8.1.3;From Commemoration to Historicization;226
9;Epilogue;243
9.1;Scaling Hiroshima;245
9.2;In Conclusion;267
10;Bibliography;273
10.1;Archives;273
10.2;Periodicals;273
10.3;Print Publications;273
10.4;Movies;301
10.5;Online Sources;301
11;Index;303

Über Autor(innen)

Helmut Puff, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

Helmut Puff, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.