Waste-site stories : the recycling of memory / edited by Brian Neville and Johanne Villeneuve.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Neville, Brian, 1966-

Villeneuve, Johanne, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern--1950-.

Civilization, Modern.

Memory--Social aspects.

Memory.

Recycling (Waste, etc.)--Psychological aspects.

Recycling (Waste, etc.).

Refuse and refuse disposal--Psychological aspects.

Refuse and refuse disposal.

Collectors and collecting--Psychological aspects.

Collectors and collecting.

Historic sites--Social aspects.

Historic sites.

Historic preservation--Social aspects.

Historic preservation.

Material culture.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

xi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]

Contents:

Objects from the past / David Gross

Waste into heritage: remarks on materials in the arts, on memories and the museum / Susanne Hauser

Art and archive: the dissimulation museum / Christine Bernier

Beyond the archive / Aleida Assmann

The acculturation of waste / Walter Moser

Agencies of cultural feedback: the infrastructure of memory / Wolfgang Ernst

Being authentic: the ambition to recycle / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Mould, rubble, and the validation of the fragment in the discourse of the past / Stephen Bann

Parthenon, Nashville: from the site of history to the sight of memory / Éric Méchoulan

Taking lanterns for bladders: symbolic and material appropriation in the postmodern / Wlad Godzich

History's mortal remains / Valeria Wagner

Photo-resemblance / Charles Grivel

Utopian legacies: memory, mediation, cinema / Johanne Villeneuve

(s)Crypt: memory building / Gordon Bleach.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791453413

0791453421

OCLC:

49305447