03784nam 2200709 450 991081187260332120230803200340.03-11-036834-X3-11-030409-010.1515/9783110304091(CKB)3280000000038951(EBL)1130327(SSID)ssj0001350367(PQKBManifestationID)11736286(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001350367(PQKBWorkID)11288210(PQKB)10095099(MiAaPQ)EBC1130327(DE-B1597)206714(OCoLC)890070942(OCoLC)900717397(DE-B1597)9783110304091(Au-PeEL)EBL1130327(CaPaEBR)ebr11010132(CaONFJC)MIL805136(EXLCZ)99328000000003895120150211h20142014 uy 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrMiniature monuments modeling German history /Helmut PuffBerlin, [Germany] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :De Gruyter,2014.©20141 online resource (310 p.)Media and cultural memory =Medien und kulturelle erinnerung,1613-8961 ;Volume 17Description based upon print version of record.3-11-030385-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Acknowledgments --Contents --List of Illustrations --Chapter One --Introduction --Chapter Two --Rubble City, Frankfurt --Chapter Three --Cities as Models in Munich --Chapter Four --Schwetzingen's Built Ruins --Chapter Five --From Rubble to Ruins in Heilbronn and Elsewhere --Epilogue --Scaling Hiroshima --In Conclusion --Bibliography --IndexMiniature Monuments: Modeling German History offers a series of essays on small-scale models of bombed out cities. Created between 1946 and the present, these plastic renderings of places provide eerie glimpses of destruction and devastation resulting of the air war. This study thus permits fresh angles on post-war responses to the compounded losses of WW II, and it does so through considering these "miniature monuments" (of, among others, Frankfurt, Munich, Schwetzingen, Heilbronn and Hiroshima) in a deep cultural history that interlaces the sixteenth, eighteenth, and twentieth centuries. Three-dimensional renderings in diminutive size have rarely been subjected to rigorous theoretical reflection. Conventionally, models, whether of ruins or intact spaces, have been assumed to be "easily legible"; that is, they have been assumed to be vehicles of the authentic. Yet rubble and other models should be theorized as complex simulacra of abstract realities and catalysts of memories. Miniature Monuments thus tackles a haunting paradox: building ruins. The book elucidates how utterly contingent processes of crumbling and collapse (the English words for the Latin ruina) came to command such great interest in modern Europe that tremendous efforts were taken to uncover, render, and, most of all, recreate ruins.Media and cultural memory ;Volume 17.HistoriographyGermanyHistorical modelsGerman history.cultural history.memory.ruins.urban history.HistoriographyHistorical models.907.2043NQ 1068rvkPuff Helmut1663558MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811872603321Miniature monuments4020949UNINA