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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lester J. LevinePublisher: McFarland & Co Inc Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.481kg ISBN: 9781476665085ISBN 10: 1476665087 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 31 August 2016 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Aerial View of 5,201 Creations 2. First Stories 3. Imagining Beyond Boundaries 4. Memorials Built with Light and Color 5. Imagining the Sound of Memory Between pages 116 and 117 are 8 color plates containing 14 photographs 6. Memorials That Move 7. Memorials That Engage 8. Multi-Functional Memorials 9. The Technology Memorial 10. Multi-Dimensional Imaginings 11. Words Speaking Memory 12. Memorial Imagining—The Creative Struggle Appendix: Background, Timeline and Guidelines Chapter Notes Interviews IndexReviewsA valuable resource for anyone who seeks understanding of the commemoration and meanings of the attacks on the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001. Lester J. Levine has brought together some 180 submissions deemed to be among the most compelling, commemorating their aims and importance. Levine offers sensible categorizations of the memorial entries that help make sense of this overwhelming body of work, while at the same time giving individual works their due. Seeing submissions that weren't selected, and learning about their creators through first-hand interviews, we gain a rich sense of 9/11's impact on ordinary people, and the creative parameters of the memorials of the imagination that are a now crucial part of this event's historical significance. Written with clarity and empathy, <i>9/11 Memorial Visions</i> offers new insights into the visual culture of memory in general and the traumas of 9/11 in particular. --Michele H. Bogart, author of <i>The Politics of Urban Beauty: New York and Its Art Commission</i>; This fascinating and heartfelt book tells the story of the World Trade Center memorial competition in 2003, a call to re-imagine a site of horrible devastation and death that drew some 5,201 entries in what is considered the largest design competition in modern memory. Levine's account of their proposals and motivations is a valuable addition to the growing body of literature on memory and commemoration in modern America. --Erika Doss, University of Notre Dame, author of <i>Memorial Mania; Public Feeling in America</i>. Recommended --Choice; A valuable resource for anyone who seeks understanding of the commemoration and meanings of the attacks on the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001. Lester J. Levine has brought together some 180 submissions deemed to be among the most compelling, commemorating their aims and importance. Levine offers sensible categorizations of the memorial entries that help make sense of this overwhelming body of work, while at the same time giving individual works their due. Seeing submissions that weren't selected, and learning about their creators through first-hand interviews, we gain a rich sense of 9/11's impact on ordinary people, and the creative parameters of the memorials of the imagination that are a now crucial part of this event's historical significance. Written with clarity and empathy, 9/11 Memorial Visions offers new insights into the visual culture of memory in general and the traumas of 9/11 in particular. --Michele H. Bogart, author of The Politics of Urban Beauty: New York and Its Art Commission; This fascinating and heartfelt book tells the story of the World Trade Center memorial competition in 2003, a call to re-imagine a site of horrible devastation and death that drew some 5,201 entries in what is considered the largest design competition in modern memory. Levine's account of their proposals and motivations is a valuable addition to the growing body of literature on memory and commemoration in modern America. --Erika Doss, University of Notre Dame, author of Memorial Mania; Public Feeling in America; Too often, discussion of memorials focuses on their physical characteristics. In this book, Lester Levine invesitgates the emotional, motivational, and human impulses behind the competitors' schemes. --Jayne Merkel, a New York-based architectural historian and critic. Author InformationLester J. Levine is a management consultant and poet. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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