LEADER 03784nam 2200709 450 001 9910811872603321 005 20230803200340.0 010 $a3-11-036834-X 010 $a3-11-030409-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110304091 035 $a(CKB)3280000000038951 035 $a(EBL)1130327 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001350367 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11736286 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001350367 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11288210 035 $a(PQKB)10095099 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1130327 035 $a(DE-B1597)206714 035 $a(OCoLC)890070942 035 $a(OCoLC)900717397 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110304091 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1130327 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11010132 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL805136 035 $a(EXLCZ)993280000000038951 100 $a20150211h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMiniature monuments $emodeling German history /$fHelmut Puff 210 1$aBerlin, [Germany] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cDe Gruyter,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (310 p.) 225 1 $aMedia and cultural memory =$aMedien und kulturelle erinnerung,$x1613-8961 ;$vVolume 17 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-030385-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tAcknowledgments --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tChapter One --$tIntroduction --$tChapter Two --$tRubble City, Frankfurt --$tChapter Three --$tCities as Models in Munich --$tChapter Four --$tSchwetzingen's Built Ruins --$tChapter Five --$tFrom Rubble to Ruins in Heilbronn and Elsewhere --$tEpilogue --$tScaling Hiroshima --$tIn Conclusion --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aMiniature Monuments: Modeling German History offers a series of essays on small-scale models of bombed out cities. Created between 1946 and the present, these plastic renderings of places provide eerie glimpses of destruction and devastation resulting of the air war. This study thus permits fresh angles on post-war responses to the compounded losses of WW II, and it does so through considering these "miniature monuments" (of, among others, Frankfurt, Munich, Schwetzingen, Heilbronn and Hiroshima) in a deep cultural history that interlaces the sixteenth, eighteenth, and twentieth centuries. Three-dimensional renderings in diminutive size have rarely been subjected to rigorous theoretical reflection. Conventionally, models, whether of ruins or intact spaces, have been assumed to be "easily legible"; that is, they have been assumed to be vehicles of the authentic. Yet rubble and other models should be theorized as complex simulacra of abstract realities and catalysts of memories. Miniature Monuments thus tackles a haunting paradox: building ruins. The book elucidates how utterly contingent processes of crumbling and collapse (the English words for the Latin ruina) came to command such great interest in modern Europe that tremendous efforts were taken to uncover, render, and, most of all, recreate ruins. 410 0$aMedia and cultural memory ;$vVolume 17. 606 $aHistoriography$zGermany 606 $aHistorical models 610 $aGerman history. 610 $acultural history. 610 $amemory. 610 $aruins. 610 $aurban history. 615 0$aHistoriography 615 0$aHistorical models. 676 $a907.2043 686 $aNQ 1068$2rvk 700 $aPuff$b Helmut$01663558 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811872603321 996 $aMiniature monuments$94020949 997 $aUNINA