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Monument to the Dead

Author : Sheila Connolly
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101623799
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Monument to the Dead written by Sheila Connolly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As president of the Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society in Philadelphia, Nell Pratt relies on the generosity of philanthropists. But when someone starts killing benefactors, it’s Nell’s turn to come to their aid… When Nell reads the obituary of a former board member, Adeline Harrison, she makes a mental note to send flowers and doesn’t think twice about it—until FBI agent James Morrison shares his suspicions about the nature of Adeline’s death. It turns out that a number of other members of the local cultural community have died in the last few months, under similar circumstances. Soon Nell uncovers what seems to be a plot to rid Philadelphia of harmless, elderly philanthropists—but why? If she can figure out the killer’s motive, she has a chance of stopping the misanthropic murderer before another do-gooder is done in…

Monument Builders

Author : Edwin Heathcote
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Monument Builders written by Edwin Heathcote and published by . This book was released on 1999-03-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of buildings created to honour the dead. It explores the links between socio-religious and existential perceptions of death and how this has been interpreted in architecture over the 20th century.

Burying the Dead but Not the Past

Author : Caroline E. Janney
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807882704
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Burying the Dead but Not the Past written by Caroline E. Janney and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers. Challenging the notion that southern white women were peripheral to the Lost Cause movement until the 1890s, Caroline Janney restores these women as the earliest creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition. Long before national groups such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the United Daughters of the Confederacy were established, Janney shows, local LMAs were earning sympathy for defeated Confederates. Her exploration introduces new ways in which gender played a vital role in shaping the politics, culture, and society of the late nineteenth-century South.

Gedenkbuch Für Die Toten Des KZ Mauthausen und Seiner Außenlager

Author : Verein für Geschichtsforschung und Gedenken in österreichischen KZ-Gedenkstätten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783700319627
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Gedenkbuch Für Die Toten Des KZ Mauthausen und Seiner Außenlager written by Verein für Geschichtsforschung und Gedenken in österreichischen KZ-Gedenkstätten and published by . This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Boundaries

Author : Maya Lin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501146564
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Boundaries written by Maya Lin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned artist and architect Maya Lin's visual and verbal sketchbook—a unique view into her artwork and philosophy. Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth -- a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site contained by the walls of this memorial, we can barely make out the carved names upon the memorial's walls. These names, seemingly infinite in number, convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole.... So begins the competition entry submitted in 1981 by a Yale undergraduate for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. -- subsequently called "as moving and awesome and popular a piece of memorial architecture as exists anywhere in the world." Its creator, Maya Lin, has been nothing less than world famous ever since. From the explicitly political to the un-ashamedly literary to the completely abstract, her simple and powerful sculpture -- the Rockefeller Foundation sculpture, the Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial, the Yale Women's Table, Wave Field -- her architecture, including The Museum for African Art and the Norton residence, and her protean design talents have defined her as one of the most gifted creative geniuses of the age. Boundaries is her first book: an eloquent visual/verbal sketchbook produced with the same inspiration and attention to detail as any of her other artworks. Like her environmental sculptures, it is a site, but one which exists at a remove so that it may comment on the personal and artistic elements that make up those works. In it, sketches, photographs, workbook entries, and original designs are held together by a deeply personal text. Boundaries is a powerful literary and visual statement by "a leading public artist" (Holland Carter). It is itself a unique work of art.

Memorials of Deceased Companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States: From May 8, 1879, when the commandery was instituted, to July 1, 1901

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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A Monument to Dynasty and Death

Author : Nathan T. Elkins
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421432560
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book A Monument to Dynasty and Death written by Nathan T. Elkins and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go behind the scenes to discover why the Colosseum was the king of amphitheaters in the Roman world—a paragon of Roman engineering prowess. Early one morning in 80 CE, the Colosseum roared to life with the deafening cheers of tens of thousands of spectators as the emperor, Titus, inaugurated the new amphitheater with one hundred days of bloody spectacles. These games were much anticipated, for the new amphitheater had been under construction for a decade. Home to spectacles involving exotic beasts, elaborate executions of criminals, gladiatorial combats, and even—when flooded—small-scale naval battles, the building itself was also a marvel. Rising to a height of approximately 15 stories and occupying an area of 6 acres—more than four times the size of a modern football field—the Colosseum was the largest of all amphitheaters in the Roman Empire. In A Monument to Dynasty and Death, Nathan T. Elkins tells the story of the Colosseum's construction under Vespasian, its dedication under Titus, and further enhancements added under Domitian. The Colosseum, Elkins argues, was far more than a lavish entertainment venue: it was an ideologically charged monument to the new dynasty, its aspirations, and its achievements. A Monument to Dynasty and Death takes readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Colosseum from the subterranean tunnels, where elevators and cages transported gladiators and animals to the blood-soaked arena floor, to the imperial viewing box, to the amphitheater's decoration and amenities, such as fountains and an awning to shade spectators. Trained as an archaeologist, an art historian, and a historian of ancient Rome, Elkins deploys an interdisciplinary approach that draws on contemporary historical texts, inscriptions, archaeology, and visual evidence to convey the layered ideological messages communicated by the Colosseum. This engaging book is an excellent resource for classes on Roman art, architecture, history, civilization, and sport and spectacle.

Archaeologists and the Dead

Author : Howard Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198753535
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Archaeologists and the Dead written by Howard Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the relationship between archaeologists and the dead, through the many dimensions of their relationships: in the field (through practical and legal issues), in the lab (through their analysis and interpretation), and in their written, visual and exhibitionary practice--disseminated to a variety of academic and public audiences. Written from a variety of perspectives, its authors address the experience, effect, ethical considerations, and cultural politics of working with mortuary archaeology. Whilst some papers reflect institutional or organizational approaches, others are more personal in their view: creating exciting and frank insights into contemporary issues that have hitherto often remained "unspoken" among the discipline. Reframing funerary archaeologists as "death-workers" of a kind, the contributors reflect on their own experience to provide both guidance and inspiration to future practitioners, arguing strongly that we have a central role to play in engaging the public with themes of mortality and commemoration, through the lens of the past. Spurred by the recent debates in the UK, papers from Scandinavia, Austria, Italy, the US, and the mid-Atlantic, frame these issues within a much wider international context that highlights the importance of cultural and historical context in which this work takes place.

Monument Wars

Author : Kirk Savage
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520271335
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Monument Wars written by Kirk Savage and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., discussing its plan and structures, and considering how the concept of memorials and memorial space has changed since the nineteenth century.

Monument

Author : Bonny Cassidy
Publisher : Giramondo Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922725900
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Monument written by Bonny Cassidy and published by Giramondo Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important literary memoir which views white settler family history against the impacts on the Indigenous people with whom they interact. Monument is poet and critic Bonny Cassidy’s fourth book. Moving seamlessly through genres in its recovery of the past — part poetry, part prose, microhistory, memoir, travel writing, and sometimes counterfactual speculation — it traces the complex consequences of colonial settlement across the generations of a White Australian family of mixed origins and ancestries. Following the threads and detours signalled by research, objects and testimony, Cassidy makes a case for the value of ‘collected memory’ against the tide of settlement and silence. Inspired by the methods of Natalie Harkin’s archival poetics and Katrina Schlunke’s Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a Massacre, Cassidy’s Monument considers how non-Indigenous Australians might absorb First Nations truth-telling; and what this means for acts of speech, and writing. Should our memories serve the living or the dead, the past or the present? Why do we need new monuments in Australia, and where should we expect to find them?

Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves

Author : David Crane
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007457243
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves written by David Crane and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction. The extraordinary and forgotten story of the building of the World War One cemeteries, due to the efforts of one remarkable man, Fabian Ware.

The Victorian Book of the Dead

Author : Chris Woodyard
Publisher : Kestrel Publications (OH)
ISBN 13 : 9780988192522
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Book of the Dead written by Chris Woodyard and published by Kestrel Publications (OH). This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macabre tales of death and mourning in Victorian America.

Moment to Monument

Author : Ladina Bezzola Lambert
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839409624
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Moment to Monument written by Ladina Bezzola Lambert and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do certain works of art make it into the canon while others just enjoy a brief moment of recognition, if at all? How do moments produce monuments, and why are monuments erased from our cultural memory in only a moment? - Taking into account these cultural processes of creating, storing, remembering and forgetting that are omnipresent and have an immense influence on how we perceive artefacts and cultural events, the articles in this collection analyze the phenomenon of cultural production, transmission and reception from various angles, drawing on approaches from both literary and cultural studies. With its transdisciplinary approach, this book uniquely responds to an everyday cultural phenomenon that so far has not received such wide-ranging attention.

Unveiling and dedication of monument to Hood's Texas brigade

Author : F.B. Chilton
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5871482902
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Unveiling and dedication of monument to Hood's Texas brigade written by F.B. Chilton and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Images in Mind

Author : Deborah Steiner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691094885
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Images in Mind written by Deborah Steiner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about--and interacted with--statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues by approaching them through contemporary literary sources. It not only shows that ancient viewers conceived of images as more operative than aesthetic, but additionally reveals how poets and philosophers found in sculpture a practice ''good to think with.'' Deborah Tarn Steiner considers how Greek authors used images to ponder the relation of a copy to an original and of external appearance to inner reality. For these writers, a sculpture could straddle life and death, encode desire, or occasion reflection on their own act of producing a text. Many of the same sources also reveal how thinking about statues was reflected in the objects' everyday treatment. Viewing representations of gods and heroes as vessels hosting a living force, worshippers ritually washed, clothed, and fed them in order to elicit the numinous presence within. By reading the plastic and verbal sources together, this book offers new insights into classical texts while illuminating the practices surrounding the design, manufacture, and deployment of ancient images. Its argument that images are properly objects of cultural and social--rather than purely aesthetic--study will attract art historians, cultural historians, and anthropologists, as well as classicists.

A Memorial of Albert Gallatin Palmer, D.D.,

Author : Edward Thurston Hiscox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Memorial of Albert Gallatin Palmer, D.D., written by Edward Thurston Hiscox and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Minutes of the ... Annual Re-union of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans in ...

Author : United Sons of Confederate Veterans. Reunion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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