Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory by Andreas Huyssen

Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory

Andreas Huyssen

192 pages 2003

3 editions

nonfiction art history philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
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Memory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York—three late-twentieth-century cities that h...

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