The inhabited ruins of Central Europe

Titel: The inhabited ruins of Central Europe : re-imagining space, history and memory
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Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke ˜[u.a.]œ : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Umfang: XI, 252 S. : Illustrationen
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9781137305855
  • List of Figures
  • p. vii
  • Acknowledgments
  • p. viii
  • Notes on Contributors
  • p. ix
  • Prologue: The Day the Wall Came Down (American Surreal)
  • p. 1
  • Introduction: Delicate Empiricism
  • p. 9
  • 1
  • Ruins and Representations of 1989: Exception, Normality, Revolution
  • p. 16
  • 2
  • The Ruins of a Myth or a Myth in Ruins? Freedom and Cohabitation in Central Europe
  • p. 40
  • 3
  • Democracy in Ruins: The Case of the Hungarian Parliament
  • p. 55
  • 4
  • Itinerant Memory Places: The Baader-Meinhof-Wagen
  • p. 79
  • 5
  • Edith Doesn't Live Here Anymore: A Story of Farnsworth House
  • p. 102
  • 6
  • Fake Fragments, Fake Ruins, and Genuine Paper Ruination
  • p. 134
  • 7
  • How We Remember and What We Forget: Art History and the Czech Avant-garde
  • p. 148
  • 8
  • Anxious Geographies - Inhabited Traditions
  • p. 178
  • 9
  • Terezín as Reverse Potemkin Ruin, in Five Movements and an Epilogue
  • p. 194
  • 10
  • Desert Europa and the Sea of Ruins: The Post-Apocalyptic Imagination in Egon Bandy's Afghanistan
  • p. 205
  • 11
  • History's Loose Ends: Imagining the Velvet Revolution
  • p. 227
  • Index
  • p. 247