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Deborah Cherry - The Afterlives of Monuments - 9780415739399 - V9780415739399
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The Afterlives of Monuments

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Description for The Afterlives of Monuments Hardback. Editor(s): Cherry, Deborah. Num Pages: 186 pages, 94 black & white halftones, 7 colour illustrations, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FK; AMGD; GM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 276 x 219 x 15. Weight in Grams: 748.

South Asia is famous for its monuments, past and present. Monuments have been created, destroyed and rescued by competing communities and incoming empires in the making and re-making of history, identity and memory.

This collection brings together an international cohort of senior scholars and younger researchers to examine the vast diversity of monuments (and conceptions of monuments) in South Asia from the 1850s to the present. The chapters investigate what constitutes a monument, and interrogate the conditions for its survival, demise or recycling. To explore the afterlives of monuments is to investigate how, where, when, and why monuments have been ... Read more

This book was published as a special issue of South Asian Studies.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415739399
SKU
V9780415739399
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Deborah Cherry
Deborah Cherry is Professor of Art History at the University of the Arts London and University of Amsterdam. She has published widely on modern and contemporary art.

Reviews for The Afterlives of Monuments
This essay highlights the encounter between the coloniser and colonised through the archeological efforts to render the temples as secular heritage and temple committees’ efforts to guard the sacred realm.

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