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Present Pasts

By Andreas Huyssen

Present Pasts Philosophy

Present Pasts

By Andreas Huyssen

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Memory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York-three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas. Berlin experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall and the city's reemergence as the German capital; Buenos Aires lived through the dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s and their legacy of state terror and disappearances; and New York City faces a set of public memory issues concerning the symbolic value of Times Square as threatened public space and the daunting task of commemorating and rebuilding after the attack on the World Trade Center. Focusing on the issue of monumentalization in divergent artistic and media practices, the book demonstrates that the transformation of spatial and temporal experience by memory politics is a major cultural effect of globalization.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
192
Release Date:
2003-02-01
Publication Date:
2003-01-15
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0804745617
ISBN13:
9780804745611
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
272 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
232 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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