Miniature Monuments : Modeling German History

Helmut Puff

ISBN 10: 311030385X / ISBN 13: 9783110303858

Published by De Gruyter, 2014

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Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Miniature Monuments : Modeling German History
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 311030385X
• ISBN 13: 9783110303858
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This study takes a material object as its starting point: small-scale models of bombed out cities. Created between 1946 and the present, these plastic renderings of places provide eerie glimpses of destruction and devastation resulting of war. This study considers these "miniature monuments" in a deep cultural history that interlaces the 16th, 18th, and 20th centuries. Miniature Monuments thus tackles a haunting paradox: building ruins.

About the Author

Helmut Puff, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.