The art of forgetting
By: edited by Adrian Forty and Susanne Küchler
Contributors: Forty, Adrian, 1948-; Küchler, Susanne
Edition: 1st. pbk. ed
Series: Materializing culture
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Memory; Memorials
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-209) and index
Table of contents: value: Preface / David Lowenthal; value: Introduction / Adrian Forty; value: Pt. I. Ephemeral monuments. 1. Ephemeral monuments, memory and royal sempiternity in a grassfields kingdom / Nicolas Argenti ; 2. The place of memory / Susanne Küchner; value: Pt. II. Remembering and forgetting in images past. 3. Girodet's Portrait of Citizen Belley, ex-representative of the colonies: in Rembrance of 'Things sublime' / Helen Weston ; 4. Bribing the vote of fame: eighteenth century monuments and the futility of commemoration / David Bindman ; 5. Forgetting Rome and the voice of Piranesi's 'Speaking ruins' / Tarnya Cooper; value: Pt. III. War memorials. 6. Remember to forget: sublimation as sacrifice in war memorials / Michael Rowlands ; 7. Remembering and forgetting in the public memorials of the Great War / Alex King ; 8. Commemorating 1916, celebrating difference: parading and painting in Belfast / Neil Jarman; value: Bibliography; value: Index