Cultures of commemoration : war memorials, ancient and modern
Low, PollyContributor
Rhodes, P. JContributor
Oliver, G. JContributor
British AcademyContent Provider
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2012.
This volume presents studies of military commemorative practices in Western culture, from 5th-century BC Greece, through two World Wars, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This new comparative approach reveals that the distant past has had a lasting influence on commemorative practice in modern times.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This volume presents studies of military commemorative practices in Western culture, from 5th-century BC Greece, through two World Wars, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This new comparative approach reveals that the distant past has had a lasting influence on commemorative practice in modern times.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Comparing cultures of commemoration in ancient and modern societies / Polly Low & Graham Oliver -- The monuments to the war dead in classical Athens: form, contexts, meanings / Polly Low -- The ritualized commemoration of war in the Hellenistic city: memory, identity, emotion / Angelos Chaniotis -- Commemorating the war dead of the Roman world / Alison Cooley -- Two Neoclassical monuments in modern France: the Panthéon and Arc de Triomphe / Avner Ben-Amos -- Naming the dead, writing the individual: classical traditions and commemorative practices in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Graham Oliver -- Cultural memory and the Great War: medievalism and classicism in British and German war memorials / Stefan Goebel -- Monument to defeat: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in American culture and society / Lawrence A. Tritle.
War memorials
War memorials
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts
Architecture
Commemmoration