Waste-site stories : the recycling of memory / edited by Brian Neville and Johanne Villeneuve.

Other author Neville, Brian, 1966-
Other author Villeneuve, Johanne, 1960-
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbany : State University of New York Press, ©2002.
Descriptionxi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Civilization, Modern--1950-.
Memory--Social aspects.
Recycling (Waste, etc.)--Psychological aspects.
Refuse and refuse disposal--Psychological aspects.
Collectors and collecting--Psychological aspects.
Historic sites--Social aspects.
Historic preservation--Social aspects.
Material culture.
Postmodernism.

Contents Objects from the past / David Gross -- Waste into heritage: remarks on materials in the arts, on memories and the museum / Susanne Hauser -- Art and archive: the dissimulation museum / Christine Bernier -- Beyond the archive / Aleida Assmann -- The acculturation of waste / Walter Moser -- Agencies of cultural feedback: the infrastructure of memory / Wolfgang Ernst -- Being authentic: the ambition to recycle / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht -- Mould, rubble, and the validation of the fragment in the discourse of the past / Stephen Bann -- Parthenon, Nashville: from the site of history to the sight of memory / Éric Méchoulan -- Taking lanterns for bladders: symbolic and material appropriation in the postmodern / Wlad Godzich -- History's mortal remains / Valeria Wagner -- Photo-resemblance / Charles Grivel -- Utopian legacies: memory, mediation, cinema / Johanne Villeneuve -- (s)Crypt: memory building / Gordon Bleach.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002021041
ISBN0791453413 (alk. paper)
ISBN0791453421 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks CB430 .W37 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold