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The art of forgetting / edited by Adrian Forty and Susanne Küchler.

Contributor(s): Küchler, Susanne | Forty, Adrian, 1948-
Publisher: Oxford : Berg, 1999.Description: xiii, 216 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 1859732917Subject(s): Monuments -- Social aspects | Art and society | Memory -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 306.47
Contents:
1. Ephemeral monuments. Ephemeral monuments, memory and royal sempiternity in a grassfields kingdom / Nicolas Argenti; The place of memory / Susanne Küchler. 2. Remembering and forgetting in images past. Girodet's Portrait of Citizen Belley, Ex-Representative of the Colonies : in remembrance of 'things sublime' / Helen Weston; Bribing the vote of fame : eighteenth century monuments and the futility of commemoration / David Bindman; Forgetting Rome and the voice of Piranesi's 'speaking ruins' / Tarnya Cooper. 3. War memorials. Remembering to forget : sublimation as sacrifice in war memorials / Michael Rowlands; Remembering and forgetting in the public memorials of the Great War / Alex King; Commemorating 1916, celebrating difference : parading and painting in Belfast / Neil Jarman.
Holdings
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Book Book British Museum Africa Oceania and the Americas Open Shelves KHR [FOR-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available M40510
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliography (p. 197-209) and index.

1. Ephemeral monuments. Ephemeral monuments, memory and royal sempiternity in a grassfields kingdom / Nicolas Argenti; The place of memory / Susanne Küchler. 2. Remembering and forgetting in images past. Girodet's Portrait of Citizen Belley, Ex-Representative of the Colonies : in remembrance of 'things sublime' / Helen Weston; Bribing the vote of fame : eighteenth century monuments and the futility of commemoration / David Bindman; Forgetting Rome and the voice of Piranesi's 'speaking ruins' / Tarnya Cooper. 3. War memorials. Remembering to forget : sublimation as sacrifice in war memorials / Michael Rowlands; Remembering and forgetting in the public memorials of the Great War / Alex King; Commemorating 1916, celebrating difference : parading and painting in Belfast / Neil Jarman.

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