Confessions of monuments

Commemorating and representing the Turkish nation-state in the early twentieth century

von Emin Artun Ozguner

282 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1920s, an emerging nation state built a particular relationship with the Ottoman past. In its simultaneous disavowal and inheritance of it, this was the new Republic of Turkey, founded in 1923. Nation-states are areas of ideological contestation. However, they are equally visible and tangible. This is thanks to the making of a new world of artefacts in build or print that represent and commemorate them in many, often contradicting ways through design practices. This book offers a thorough account of this new Turkish material world through the trajectories of commemoration; from public monuments, print media, and festive illumination to temporary and permanent architecture from the onset of the 1908 Young Turk revolution to the demise of Turkey's founding single-party regime in the late 1950s. If objects are silent actors of history, their confessions await.

• Reihe: Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Themen: Lexika Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften / Museumskunde Museologie und Heritage Studies
• ISBN: 9781526176233
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.06.2026
• Größe: 250 x 175 mm
• Verlag: Manchester University Press