Daniel J Sherman

Gebundenes Buch

The Construction of Memory in Interwar France

Beschreibung

AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Emergence of Commemoration1. Experience and MemoryNarrating WarSeeing MemoryLasting Impressions2. Bodies and NamesAn Immense NecropolisInscribing Absence"This Precious Patrimony"3. Making a SacrificeStructuresResourcesThe Broken Plaque4. Seeing the Signified"A Kind of Anguished Terror": Salons, Critics and Artists"An Artistic Character": Prefectoral Review Boards and Provincial Standards"All My Designs Are Approved": The Business of Commemoration"So Superior to Panegyrics": Monuments and Meanings5. Contested SpacesSites of CommemorationFor God and Country?Making It LocalRequiems for an Elm Tree6. DedicationPatterns of CeremonyThe Dead and the LivingThe Power of MemoryEpilogueThe Thirties: Dying of the LightThe Sixties: Memory into History?The Nineties: Return of the RepressedNotesIndex

Autor

Daniel J. Sherman is the Lineberger Distinguished Professor of Art History and History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of, among other books, The Construction of Memory in Interwar France and French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945-1975, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 187mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1234g
• ISBN-13: 9780226752853
• ISBN-10: 0226752852
• Artikelnr.: 21340679