Wednesday, December 14, 2016

The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Napoléon to ISIS


The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Napoléon to ISIS


This dossier of original essays examines the demolition of monuments in the Middle East from the Napoléonic era to the present. The authors describe the impact of obliterating architecture on our psyches, cultures, philosophies, and historiographies. Tracing the mediatization of demolition, and its traps and tropes, such as sensationalism and anthropmorphization, these essays also explore the agencies and capacities of threatened monuments.

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