Memorials of His Time
Author : Henry Cockburn
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
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Author : Henry Cockburn
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
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Author : Maya Lin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 13,52 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 1501146564
Renowned artist and architect Maya Lin's visual and verbal sketchbook—a unique view into her artwork and philosophy. Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth -- a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site contained by the walls of this memorial, we can barely make out the carved names upon the memorial's walls. These names, seemingly infinite in number, convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole.... So begins the competition entry submitted in 1981 by a Yale undergraduate for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. -- subsequently called "as moving and awesome and popular a piece of memorial architecture as exists anywhere in the world." Its creator, Maya Lin, has been nothing less than world famous ever since. From the explicitly political to the un-ashamedly literary to the completely abstract, her simple and powerful sculpture -- the Rockefeller Foundation sculpture, the Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial, the Yale Women's Table, Wave Field -- her architecture, including The Museum for African Art and the Norton residence, and her protean design talents have defined her as one of the most gifted creative geniuses of the age. Boundaries is her first book: an eloquent visual/verbal sketchbook produced with the same inspiration and attention to detail as any of her other artworks. Like her environmental sculptures, it is a site, but one which exists at a remove so that it may comment on the personal and artistic elements that make up those works. In it, sketches, photographs, workbook entries, and original designs are held together by a deeply personal text. Boundaries is a powerful literary and visual statement by "a leading public artist" (Holland Carter). It is itself a unique work of art.
Author : John Browne
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 10,79 MB
Release : 2024-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385551641
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author : Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn
Publisher :
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
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Author : Granville Penn
Publisher :
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 35,90 MB
Release : 1833
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Author : James E. Young
Publisher : Public History in Historical P
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2018-04-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781625343611
Introduction. The memorial's vernacular arc between Berlin's Denkmal and New York City's 9/11 Memorial -- The stages of memory at Ground Zero: the National 9/11 Memorial process -- Daniel Libeskind and the houses of Jewish memory: what is Jewish architecture? -- Regarding the pain of women: gender and the arts of holocaust memory -- The terrible beauty of Nazi aesthetics -- Looking into the mirrors of evil: Nazi imagery in contemporary art at the Jewish Museum in New York -- The contemporary arts of memory in the works of Esther Shalev-Gerz, Miroslaw Balka, Tobi Kahn, and Komar and Melamid -- Utøya and Norway's July 22 memorial: the memory of political terror.
Author : Granville Penn
Publisher :
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 1833
Category : Great Britain
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Author : John James Lowndes
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 1838
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Author : Keith Lowe
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1250235049
A look at how our monuments to World War II shape the way we think about the war by an award-winning historian. Keith Lowe, an award-winning author of books on WWII, saw monuments around the world taken down in political protest and began to wonder what monuments built to commemorate WWII say about us today. Focusing on these monuments, Prisoners of History looks at World War II and the way it still tangibly exists within our midst. He looks at all aspects of the war from the victors to the fallen, from the heroes to the villains, from the apocalypse to the rebuilding after devastation. He focuses on twenty-five monuments including The Motherland Calls in Russia, the US Marine Corps Memorial in the USA, Italy’s Shrine to the Fallen, China’s Nanjin Massacre Memorial, The A Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, the balcony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and The Liberation Route that runs from London to Berlin. Unsurprisingly, he finds that different countries view the war differently. In monuments erected in the US, Lowe sees triumph and patriotic dedications to the heroes. In Europe, the monuments are melancholy, ambiguous and more often than not dedicated to the victims. In these differing international views of the war, Lowe sees the stone and metal expressions of sentiments that imprison us today with their unchangeable opinions. Published on the 75th anniversary of the end of the war, Prisoners of History is a 21st century view of a 20th century war that still haunts us today.
Author : Sir Daniel Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
ISBN :