The Inhabited Ruins of Central Europe [electronic resource] : Re-imagining Space, History, and Memory /
Gafijczuk, D.editor.
Sayer, D.editor.
Focusing on Central Europe, the volume proposes a new paradigm of how culture works, based on a model of "inhabited ruins" as a space where contradictory elements come together into continually renewed and frequently paradoxical configurations. Examines art, architecture, literature and music.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Notes on Contributors -- Prologue: The Day the Wall Came Down (American Surreal) / Derek Sayer -- Introduction: Delicate Empiricism / Dariusz Gafijczuk -- 1. Ruins and Representations of 1989 : Exception, Normality, Revolution / Tim Beasley-Murray -- 2. The Ruins of a Myth or a Myth in Ruins? : Freedom and Cohabitation in Central Europe / Paul Blokker -- 3. Democracy in Ruins : The case of the Hungarian Parliament / Endre Danyi -- 4. Itinerant Memory Places : The Baader-Meinhof-Wagen / Kimberly Mair -- 5. Edith Doesn't Live Here Anymore : A Story of Farnsworth House / Yoke-Sum Wong -- 6. Comments on Comments : Fake Fragments, Fake Ruins, and Genuine Paper Ruination / Jindrich Toman -- 7. How We Remember and What We Forget : Art History and the Czech Avant-garde / Derek Sayer -- 8. Anxious Geographies - Inhabited Traditions / Dariusz Gafijczuk -- 9. Terezin as Reverse Potemkin Ruin, in Five Movements and an Epilogue / Michael Beckerman -- 10. Desert Europa and the Sea of Ruins : The Post-Apocalyptic Imagination in Egon Bondy's Afghanistan / Jonathan Bolton -- 11. History's Loose Ends : Reflections on the Structure of Velvet Revolutions / Peter Zusi.
Focusing on Central Europe, the volume proposes a new paradigm of how culture works, based on a model of "inhabited ruins" as a space where contradictory elements come together into continually renewed and frequently paradoxical configurations. Examines art, architecture, literature and music.
Arts.
Europe-History.
Literature.
Social history.
Civilization-History.
History, Modern.
Arts.
European History.
Literature, general.
Social History.
Cultural History.
Modern History.