Book The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Napoléon to ISIS
This is a dossier of original essays examining the demolition of monuments in the Middle East from the Napoléonic era to the present. The authors describe the impact of obliterating architecture on our psyches, cultures, philosophies, and historiographies. Tracing the mediatization of demolition, and its traps and tropes, such as sensationalism and anthropmorphization, these essays also explore the agencies and capacities of threatened monuments.
image: A building damaged by aerial attack during the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988), Abadan, Iran. Courtesy of the Organization for Cultural Heritage, Tehran, Iran.
The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: Project Description • Pamela Karimi and Nasser Rabbat
Introduction
The Demise and Afterlife of Artifacts • Pamela Karimi and Nasser Rabbat
Part I: On Erasure and Its Aftermath
Exhibition and Erasure/Art and Politics • Annabel Wharton
Memento Mauri: The Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba • Michele Lamprakos
DNA Damage: Violence Against Buildings • Sussan Babaie
Iconoclasm beyond Negation: Globalization and Image Production in Mosul • Thomas Stubblefield
Part II: On Civility, Barbarity and Acts of Violence Against Inanimate Objects
Artfare: Aesthetic Profiling from Napoléon to Neoliberalism• Kirsten Scheid
The Thing We Love(d): Little Girls, Inanimate Objects, and the Violence of a System • Talinn Grigor
Modernity as Perpetual War or Perpetual Peace? • Esra Akcan
Appendix: A Selection of News Articles on the Destruction of Cultural Heritage in the Middle East
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Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2016 |
Authors | Karimi P, Rabbat N |
Publisher | The Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative |
Abstract | This is a dossier of original essays examining the demolition of monuments in the Middle East from the Napoléonic era to the present. The authors describe the impact of obliterating architecture on our psyches, cultures, philosophies, and historiographies. Tracing the mediatization of demolition, and its traps and tropes, such as sensationalism and anthropmorphization, these essays also explore the agencies and capacities of threatened monuments. image: A building damaged by aerial attack during the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988), Abadan, Iran. Courtesy of the Organization for Cultural Heritage, Tehran, Iran. The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: Project Description • Pamela Karimi and Nasser Rabbat IntroductionThe Demise and Afterlife of Artifacts • Pamela Karimi and Nasser Rabbat Part I: On Erasure and Its AftermathExhibition and Erasure/Art and Politics • Annabel Wharton Memento Mauri: The Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba • Michele Lamprakos DNA Damage: Violence Against Buildings • Sussan Babaie Iconoclasm beyond Negation: Globalization and Image Production in Mosul • Thomas Stubblefield Part II: On Civility, Barbarity and Acts of Violence Against Inanimate ObjectsArtfare: Aesthetic Profiling from Napoléon to Neoliberalism• Kirsten Scheid The Thing We Love(d): Little Girls, Inanimate Objects, and the Violence of a System • Talinn Grigor Modernity as Perpetual War or Perpetual Peace? • Esra Akcan Appendix: A Selection of News Articles on the Destruction of Cultural Heritage in the Middle East |