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"While others characterize contemporary Berlin's museums and memorials as postmodern, Kathleen James-Chakraborty argues that they are examples of much older and more complex ""architecture of modern memory."" She demonstrates that how one remembers can be detached from what one remembers, contrasting ruins with recollections of modernism to commemorate German suffering, the Holocaust, the industrial revolution, and new spaces for Islam. "

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Author:   Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
ISBN:  

9781517902919

ISBN 10:   1517902916
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   15 January 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction: Making Memory Modern 1. Making German Architecture Modern 2. Inserting Memory into Modern Architecture: West German Churches 3. An Architecture of Fragmentation and Absence: West German Museums 4. Critical Reconstruction or Neo-Modernist Shards? Post-unification Berlin 5. Manufacturing Memory in the Ruhr Region 6. Assimilating Modern Memory Conclusion: The Kolumba Museum in Cologne Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Kathleen James-Chakraborty is professor of art history at University College Dublin. She is author of Architecture since 1400 and Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War, both from Minnesota.

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