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Title Places of commemoration : search for identity and landscape design / edited by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn.

Imprint Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection  712.09 P69 2001    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 436 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Note Selected papers from the 19th Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture held in 1995.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "Come into the garden, Maud" : garden art as a privileged mode of commemoration and identity / John Dixon Hunt -- At home on the other side : African American burials as commemorative landscapes / Grey Gundaker -- Commemoration in the landscape of Minnehaha : "a halo of poetic association" / Daniel Joseph Nadenicek -- Landscape of loved ones / Marc Treib -- National cemetery system : politics, place, and contemporary cemetery design / Michael A. Stern -- Mount Vernon Memorial Highway : changing conceptions of an American commemorative landscape / Timothy Davis -- Designing memories...of what? Reading the landscape of the Astronauts Memorial / Carole Blair and Neil Michel -- From World War I cemeteries to the Nazi "fortresses of the dead" : architecture, heroic landscape, and the quest for national identity in Germany / Gunnar Brands -- Perilous landscapes : concentration camp memorials between commemoration and amnesia / Sybil Milton -- Landscape design of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp memorial / Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn -- Sacred ground : martial landscape in American culture / Edward T. Linenthal -- Commemorative landscape of the Vietnam War / Patrick Hagopian -- Garden as narrative : Lawrence Halprin's Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial / Reuben M. Rainey.
Subject Gardens -- Symbolic aspects.
Landscape design.
Memorials.
Added Author Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim.
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (19th : 1995)
ISBN 0884022609 (alk. paper)
9780884022602 (alk. paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 184520959
YDXCP 1652565
NZ1 5258245
AU@ 000020254318

 
    
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