Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin : Framing the Asynchronous City, 1957-2012 / Simon Ward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ward, Simon, 1969- author.

Series:

Cities and cultures

Cities and Cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 pages).

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

As sites of turbulence and transformation, cities are machines for forgetting. And yet archiving and exhibiting the presence of the past remains a key cultural, political and economic activity in many urban environments. This book takes the example of Berlin over the past four decades to chart how the memory culture of the city has responded to the challenges and transformations thrown up by the changing political, social and economic organization of the built environment. The book focuses on the visual culture of the city (architecture, memorials, photography and film). It argues that the recovery of the experience of time is central to the practices of an emergent memory culture in a contemporary 'overexposed' city, whose spatial and temporal boundaries have long since disintegrated.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 102580

ISBN:

9789048527045

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access