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Lucia Allais has written an extraordinary book, an account of monuments in modernity as they are laboriously assembled and then bombed into smithereens. Targeted and preserved, conceptualized, revered, disdained--Allais shows just how polymorphic these perverse stones can be. Interested in collective memory, recent architecture, international culture or public art? Read this.--Peter Galison, Harvard University

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A Hardback by Lucia Allais


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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 16/10/2018
    ISBN13: 9780226286556, 978-0226286556
    ISBN10: 022628655X
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    Architecture: public and commercial History of art History European history

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    Book Synopsis


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    Lucia Allais has written an extraordinary book, an account of monuments in modernity as they are laboriously assembled and then bombed into smithereens. Targeted and preserved, conceptualized, revered, disdained--Allais shows just how polymorphic these perverse stones can be. Interested in collective memory, recent architecture, international culture or public art? Read this.--Peter Galison, Harvard University

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