When damage becomes memorial:

Wars, both those won and those lost, are often commemorated with monuments and memorials. These take different forms and make use of various symbolic devices to convey their meanings, such as representation, inscription, style, and cultural references. In addition to these deliberately designed to c...

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1. Verfasser: Korsmeyer, Carolyn 1950- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2023
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Zusammenfassung:Wars, both those won and those lost, are often commemorated with monuments and memorials. These take different forms and make use of various symbolic devices to convey their meanings, such as representation, inscription, style, and cultural references. In addition to these deliberately designed to commemorate, there is another type of memorial, one that displays the damage caused by war, such as Hiroshima’s Genbaku Dome or the preserved remains of Coventry Cathedral. These memorials possess an additional symbolic feature, what Nelson Goodman calls "exemplification," since they embody the very acts that brought about their injured state. This chapter explores the power of artifacts that exemplify damage in structures that still stand, and of memorials that exemplify the absence of those that were destroyed.
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ISBN:978-0-19-286264-8