LEADER 04384oam 22004934a 450 001 9910137320303321 005 20240201172200.0 024 7 $a10.21983/P3.0094.1.00 035 $a(CKB)3710000000534160 035 $a(OAPEN)1004568 035 $a(OCoLC)1256402788 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse87161 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33683 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000534160 100 $a20150220j20150217 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmu#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLapidari 1: Texts 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2015 210 1$aNorth Charleston :$cCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform [distributor]$d2015 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (284 pages) $cillustrations; PDF, digital file(s) 311 08$aPrint version: 9780692350461 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 330 8 $aAnnotation$bIn June and July 2014, philologist Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei and photographer Marco Mazzi undertook the Albanian Lapidar Survey, a project to map, document, and photograph the large majority of Albanian lapidars, a particular type of monument, mainly produced in the period that the communist Labor Party of Albania ruled the country (1945-1990) to commemorate the partisan victims, battles, and military units from the National Anti-Fascist Liberation War (which coincided with World War II), as well as historical figures from before the liberation and the accomplishments of socialism in Albania afterward. These lapidars, which can still be found, albeit in ever decreasing numbers, all over the country -- in cities and villages, alongside roads, in forests and on mountain passes -- are witness to an enormous expenditure of labor and resources to turn the landscape into a site of what was called "monumental propaganda." The Albanian Lapidar Survey aimed to capture these monuments as fact. The results of this project are collected into a three-volume, dual-language (English and Albanian) catalogue, under the title Lapidari. The first volume comprises a series of critical reflections on Albanian monumentality of the period 1945-1990 from a variety of perspectives, as well as historical documents and a full indexation of all inscriptions found on the documented monuments. Volumes 2 and 3 feature the photographic documentation of all 649 recorded monumental sites by photographer Marco Mazzi. Table of ContentsVolume 1: TEXTS: Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei // Introduction -- People's Republic of Albania, Ministry of Education, Directorate of Culture // Circular to the Prefectural Executive Committee (Section Education): Regarding Lapidars (1946) -- Ramiz Alia // Report on the State and Measures for the Development and Further Revolutionizing of Monumental Propaganda (1968) -- Kujtim Buza & Kleanth Dedi // Dignified Symbols for Historical Events (1971) -- Muharrem Xhafa // Natural and Cultural Monuments during the Years of Socialism -- Ge?zim Qe?ndro // The Thanatology of Hope -- Raino Isto // "We Raise Our Eyes and Feel as if She Rules the Sky": The Mother Albania Monument and the Visualization of National History -- Kosta Giakoumis & Christopher Lockwood // Pilgrimage Centered at Text and Memory: The Lapidar in Quke?s-Pishkash -- Matthias Bickert // Lapidars and Socialist Monuments as Elements of Albania's Historic Cultural Landscapes -- Julian Bejko // About the Film Lapidari -- Ardian Vehbiu // Texts Chiseled on the Calendar: A Semiotic Reading of Inscriptions on the Commemorative Monuments for the Period of the National Liberation War -- Monument Descriptions: Index of Names, Index of Places, Index of DatesVolumes 2-3 feature the photographic documentation of all 649 recorded monumental sites by photographer Marco Mazzi. 606 $aMemorials, monuments$2bicssc 610 $acommunism 610 $aAlbania 610 $apublic art 610 $amonumentality 610 $asocialism 610 $apolitical history 615 7$aMemorials, monuments 700 $aEagles$b Department$01024176 702 $aVan Gerven Oei$b Vincent$4edt 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910137320303321 996 $aLapidari 1: Texts$92433883 997 $aUNINA