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C'est le paradoxe du monument moderne que ce livre se propose d'explorer. À mesure que l'enjeu de l'inscription mémorielle devient idéologiquement plus suspect, le monument se métamorphose, et l'art anglais et américain vient interroger sans relâche, par-delà le rapport à l'Histoire, les enjeux sociaux et environnementaux de la commémoration. Le marbre grec est-il blanc, le toponyme indien laisse-t-il une trace ? Construire ou décrire un monument, est-ce conforter son identité ou subtiliser la mémoire de l'autre ? Peu à peu, l'art et la littérature revisitent, brisent et transfigurent le monumental. Comment définir le monument contemporain, autrement qu'à travers ses échelles variables, du jardin de Finley au labyrinthe d'acier de Richard Serra, installations éphémères et solides à la fois ? D'où cette force proprement poétique du monument, que cette « promenade » permet d'approcher et réévaluer. This book traces the evolution of the concept of monumentality, from straightforward historical inscription to periods when such manifestations become ideologically suspect. Were Greek statues really white? Why keep monuments or Indian toponyms in the United States? Nineteenth-century British and American artists explore the construction of identity, history and nation. Gradually, monuments became landmarks of mutability as much as stability. From books and poems to works of art, twentieth and twenty-first century aesthetics revisit the monumental, from Finley's garden to Richard Serra's labyrinthine iron structures. Shape-shifting, solid yet often ephemeral, installations explore spatial and social interactions, submitting monumentality and commemoration to a welcome and long-overdue reevaluation.

English literature --- American literature --- Monuments in literature. --- Monuments in art. --- Memorials in literature. --- Memorials in art. --- History and criticism. --- English literature - 19th century - History and criticism --- American literature - 19th century - History and criticism --- Monuments in literature --- Monuments in art --- Memorials in literature --- Memorials in art --- art --- modernité --- littérature --- Royaume-Uni --- États-Unis --- monument

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"Architecture, Media and Memory examines the wide range of urban sites impacted by September 11 and its aftermath - from the spontaneous memorials that emerged in Union Square in the hours after the attacks, to the reconstruction at Ground Zero, to vast ongoing landscape urbanism projects beyond. Yet this is not simply a book about post-9/11 architecture. It instead presents 9/11 as a multifaceted case study to explore a discourse on memory and its representation in the built environment. It argues that the reconstruction of New York must be considered in relation to larger issues of urban development, ongoing global conflicts, the rise of digital media, and the culture, philosophy and aesthetics of memory. It shows how understanding architecture in New York post-9/11 requires bringing memory into contact with a complex array of political, economic and social forces. Demonstrating an ability to explain complex philosophical ideas in language that will be accessible to students and researchers alike in architecture, urban studies, cultural studies and memory studies, this book serves as a thought-provoking account of the intertwining of contemporary architecture, media and memory."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Memorials --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- Collective memory and city planning --- Social aspects --- New York (N.Y.) --- Buildings, structures, etc.

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Every year, people from all over the world visit American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) sites, from Normandy, France, to Busan, South Korea, to Corozal, Panama. At rest in the 26 overseas cemeteries are almost 139,000 dead, and memorialized on 'Walls of the Missing' are 60,314 fallen soldiers with no known graves. The ABMC administers, operates, and maintains 26 permanent American military cemeteries and 27 federal memorials, monuments, and markers. These graves and memorials are among the most beautiful and meticulously maintained shrines in the world. This is a study of the ABMC, from its founding in 1923 to the present.

War memorials --- National cemeteries, American --- American national cemeteries --- War monuments --- Art and war --- Memorials --- Monuments --- Military parks --- Soldiers' monuments --- Conservation and restoration --- American Battle Monuments Commission --- United States. --- ABMC --- History. --- United States --- Appalachian Region, Southern --- Appalachian Mountains, Southern --- Appalachians, Southern --- Southern Appalachian Mountains --- Southern Appalachian Region --- Southern Appalachians --- History --- Underground movements. --- In motion pictures. --- In literature. --- Guerrillas

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In Dissensual Subjects, Andrew C. Rajca combines cultural studies and critical theory to explore how the aftereffects of dictatorship have been used to formulate dominant notions of human rights in the present. In so doing, he critiques the exclusionary nature of these processes and highlights who and what count (and do not count) as subjects of human rights as a result.0Through an engaging exploration of the concept of "never again" (nunca más/nunca mais) and close analysis of photography exhibits, audiovisual installations, and other art forms in spaces of cultural memory, the book explores how aesthetic interventions can suggest alternative ways of framing human rights subjectivity beyond the rhetoric of liberal humanitarianism. The book visits sites of memory, two of which functioned as detention and torture centers during dictatorships, to highlight the tensions between the testimonial tenor of permanent exhibits and the aesthetic interventions of temporary installations there. Rajca thus introduces perspectives that both undo common understandings of authoritarian violence and its effects as well as reconfigure who or what are made visible as subjects of memory and human rights in postdictatorship countries.

Collective memory - Argentina. --- Collective memory - Brazil. --- Collective memory - Uruguay. --- Collective memory in art. --- Memorials - Argentina. --- Memorials - Brazil. --- Memorials - Uruguay. --- Dictatorship - Argentina - 20th century. --- Dictatorship - Brazil - 20th century. --- Dictatorship - Uruguay - 20th century. --- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism - Argentina. --- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism - Brazil. --- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism - Uruguay. --- Human rights - Argentina. --- Human rights - Brazil. --- Human rights - Uruguay. --- Human rights --- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism --- Dictatorship --- Memorials --- Collective memory --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Commemorations --- Historic sites --- Memorialization --- Monuments --- Absolutism --- Autocracy --- Tyranny --- Authoritarianism --- Despotism --- Totalitarianism --- State-sponsored terrorism victims --- Victims of state terrorism --- Victims of terrorism

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The uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorials Each year, millions of people visit Holocaust memorials and museums, with the number of tourists steadily on the rise. What lies behind the phenomenon of "Holocaust tourism" and what role do its participants play in shaping how we remember and think about the Holocaust? In Postcards from Auschwitz, Daniel P. Reynolds argues that tourism to former concentration camps, ghettos, and other places associated with the Nazi genocide of European Jewry has become an increasingly vital component in the evolving collective remembrance of the Holocaust. Responding to the tendency to dismiss tourism as commercial, superficial, or voyeuristic, Reynolds insists that we take a closer look at a phenomenon that has global reach, takes many forms, and serves many interests. The book focuses on some of the most prominent sites of mass murder in Europe, and then expands outward to more recent memorial museums. Reynolds provides a historically-informed account of the different forces that have shaped Holocaust tourism since 1945, including Cold War politics, the sudden emergence of the "memory boom" beginning in the 1980s, and the awareness that eyewitnesses to the Holocaust are passing away. Based on his on-site explorations, the contributions from researchers in Holocaust studies and tourism studies, and the observations of tourists themselves, this book reveals how tourism is an important part of efforts to understand and remember the Holocaust, an event that continues to challenge ideals about humanity and our capacity to learn from the past.

Collective memory. --- Dark tourism --- Heritage tourism --- Holocaust memorials. --- Concentration camps --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Memorials --- Cultural tourism --- Tourism --- Black tourism (Dark tourism) --- Grief tourism --- Thanatourism --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Social aspects. --- Historiography. --- Nazi concentration camps --- Concentration camps, Nazi --- Death camps, Nazi --- Extermination camps, Nazi --- Nazi death camps --- Nazi extermination camps --- Internment camps