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  • Memorial Mania

    Public Feeling in America

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    In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now less the subject of serious inquiry, are temporary memorials: spontaneous offerings of flowers and candles that ... Read more

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  • The Emotional Life of Contemporary Public Memorials

    Towards a Theory of Temporary Memorials

    by Erika Doss ...
    Series series Meertens ethnology cahier
    From the commemoration of September 11to the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, recent decades have witnessed a substantial increase in the number of new publicmemorials built in both Europe and theUnited States. This volume considers thecontemporary explosion of public commemoration in terms of changed cultural and social practices of mourning, memory, and public feeling. Positingmemorials as the ... Read more

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  • Grandma Moses

    A Good Day's Work

    A major reexamination of the life, art, and legacy of a self-taught American masterGrandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work repositions Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860–1961) as a multidimensional force in American art, whose beloved recollections of rural life earned her a distinctive place in the cultural imagination of the postwar era. Moses was eighty years old when Otto Kallir, a New York ... Read more

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  • Breaking the Bronze Ceiling

    Women, Memory, and Public Space

    Series series Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
    Breaking the Bronze Ceiling uncovers a glaring omission in our global memorial landscape—the conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide to women's memorialization across diverse cultures and ages. As global memorials come under intense examination, with metropolises vying for a more inclusive recognition of female contributions, this ... Read more

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  • Spiritual Moderns

    Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion

    by Erika Doss ...
    Examines how and why religion matters in the history of modern American art.Andy Warhol is one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. He was also an observant Catholic who carried a rosary, went to mass regularly, kept a Bible by his bedside, and depicted religious subjects throughout his career. Warhol was a spiritual modern: a modern artist who appropriated religious images ... Read more

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