Miniature Monuments : Modeling German History.

• Main Author: Puff, Helmut
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2014.
• Series: Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung.
• Subjects: města; názorné modely; druhá světová válka (1939-1945); válečné škody; sídelní geografie; cities and towns; visual models; World War (1939-1945); war damage; urban geography; elektronické knihy; monografie; electronic books; monographs

This study takes a material object as its starting point: small-scale models of bombed out cities. Created between 1946 and the present, these plastic renderings of places provide eerie glimpses of destruction and devastation resulting of war. This study considers these "miniature monuments&quo...