Confessions of monuments: Commemorating and representing the Turkish nation-state in the early twentieth century (Studies in Design and Material Culture) - Hardcover

Ozguner, Emin Artun

 
9781526176233: Confessions of monuments: Commemorating and representing the Turkish nation-state in the early twentieth century (Studies in Design and Material Culture)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1526176238 ISBN 13: 9781526176233
Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1920s, an emerging nation state built a particular relationship with the Ottoman past. In its simultaneous disavowal and inheritance of it, this was the new Republic of Turkey, founded in 1923. Nation-states are areas of ideological contestation. However, they are equally visible and tangible. This is thanks to the making of a new world of artefacts in build or print that represent and commemorate them in many, often contradicting ways through design practices. This book offers a thorough account of this new Turkish material world through the trajectories of commemoration; from public monuments, print media, and festive illumination to temporary and permanent architecture from the onset of the 1908 Young Turk revolution to the demise of Turkey’s founding single-party regime in the late 1950s. If objects are silent actors of history, their confessions await. -- .

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About the Author

Artun Ozguner is a Senior Lecturer in Contextual and Theoretical Studies at the University for the Creative Arts -- .

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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Publication date
2026
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1526176238
ISBN 13 
9781526176233
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
248