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Fallen Idols: History is not erased when statues are pulled down. It is made.

Autor Alex von Tunzelmann
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 apr 2022

În paginile volumului Fallen Idols, dialogul dintre piatra imobilă a monumentelor și fluxul viu al istoriei capătă o dimensiune aproape tactilă. Putem afirma că Alex von Tunzelmann nu scrie doar o cronică a distrugerii, ci o analiză fină a modului în care societățile aleg să își „reinstaleze” memoria. Textul reinterpretează actul de dărâmare a soclurilor nu ca pe o ștergere a trecutului, ci ca pe un proces activ de scriere a istoriei în timp real. Experiența lecturii este una dinamică, purtându-ne prin 12 povești fascinante, de la bustul lui Leopold al II-lea în Belgia până la efigiile lui Christopher Columbus din SUA, transformând fiecare capitol într-o călătorie globală plină de tensiune și context politic.

Simțim în această lucrare rigoarea cercetătorului de arhivă combinată cu ritmul alert al unui narator experimentat. Merită menționat că, spre deosebire de On a Pedestal, care explorează interacțiunile cotidiene și uneori anecdotice ale britanicilor cu statuile lor, Fallen Idols adoptă o perspectivă academică mai amplă, centrată pe distincția dintre omagiul politic și documentul istoric. Complementar lui Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials din aceeași perioadă de efervescență socială, lucrarea lui Tunzelmann se diferențiază prin accesibilitatea stilului și prin focalizarea pe figurile „marilor bărbați” care au dominat spațiul public timp de secole. Este o analiză despre cum „statuaria” a devenit un instrument de putere și despre ce se întâmplă atunci când acea putere este contestată prin gesturi vizuale radicale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472281913
ISBN-10: 1472281918
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Headline
Colecția Headline
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă mizele profunde ale „războaielor culturale” contemporane fără a cădea în capcana argumentelor simpliste. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă istorică documentată asupra motivelor pentru care anumite monumente cad și cum acest proces reflectă evoluția valorilor noastre morale. Este o recomandare excelentă pentru cei pasionați de istoria artei, politică și sociologie urbană, oferind un context lucid asupra modului în care ne gestionăm moștenirea colectivă.


Despre autor

Alex von Tunzelmann este un reputat istoric, scenarist și autor britanic, format la University College, Oxford. Recunoscută pentru capacitatea sa de a aduce rigoarea academică în sfera publică, ea a lucrat anterior ca cercetător pentru autori de prestigiu și a semnat bestsellerul internațional „Indian Summer”. În opera sa, Tunzelmann explorează frecvent momentele de criză și tranziție globală; de exemplu, în Blood and Sand, ea analizează crizele gemene de la Suez și din Ungaria din 1956. Prin Fallen Idols, autoarea își continuă preocuparea pentru modul în care evenimentele politice majore și figurile istorice remarcabile modelează conștiința prezentului, consolidându-și reputația de observator perspicace al istoriei moderne.


Descriere

A hugely entertaining and informative narrative on one of the key arguments raging across the globe.


Recenzii

Alex von Tunzelmann is one of the most gifted historians writing today. Brilliant and trenchant, witty and wise, Fallen Idols is a book you will adore, devour, and talk about to everyone you know. Hesitate no longer; buy this book
This timely, sparkling and often hilarious book is all that we have come to expect from Alex von Tunzelmann - witty (often wickedly so) scintillating, skewering pomposity. Readers will relish her eagle-eyed knack of offering jaw dropping anecdote while always keeping us aware of the big picture
Like all the best historians von Tunzelmann uses the past to explain what the hell is going on today. She does so with a flair, her signature mix of scholarship and succinctness that is so compelling. If you want to make sense of the statues debate, and the coming culture war over our history, this is where you need to start
Alexandra von Tunzelmann has chosen a subject akin to a minefield for her new book, except that the mines are statues and very much above ground . . . Tunzelmann is as skilled a guide as one could wish for; her erudition and light touch are major advantages. There is not a dull sentence in the book, which from the moment American revolutionaries topple George III in New York, grips the reader from start to finish.
It's a lively, engaging and often witty exploration of why statues are put up, why they are taken down and what this teaches us about history and memory . . . If it has an agenda, it's one that urges us to see the layers, the nuance and the different points of view
Forensically unpicking polemical arguments from all sides in the debate, von Tunzelmann calmly and deftly guides us through this important issue, while never stopping being hugely informative, surprising and entertaining.
Timely and necessary.
Alex von Tunzelmann deftly captures ... [that] ... statues are always works in progress: toppled, moved, reworked, re-erected and reinterpreted. There has never been a time when they were not contested.
It's a timely, well written and often entertaining look at statues that were pulled down not only in 2020's wave of iconoclasm but in other places and at other times too.
Excellent
In the past few years, there has been a rush to topple statues. Across the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Belgium and elsewhere, Black Lives Matter protesters defaced and in some cases hauled down statues of slaveholders, Confederate icons, and imperialists.

In Bristol, Edward Colston was knocked off his plinth and hurled into the harbour. Robert E. Lee was covered in graffiti in Richmond, Virginia. Christopher Columbus was toppled in Minnesota, burned and thrown into a lake in Virginia, and beheaded in Massachusetts. King Leopold II of the Belgians was set on fire in Antwerp and doused in red paint in Ghent. Winston Churchill was daubed with the word 'racist' in London. The backlash from conservatives has been fast and intense.

Statues are one of the most visible forms of historical storytelling, maybe the most visible. The stories we tell are vital to how we as societies understand our past and make our future. The ultimate question is: 'who controls history?'

FALLEN IDOLS tells the story of twelve toppled statues around the world. It will look at why they were put up in the first place; the stories they were intended to tell; the symbolism they came to embody; and the manner and consequences of their removal. History is not erased when statues are pulled down. If anything, it is made.

Notă biografică

Alex von Tunzelmann lives in London. She read history at University College, Oxford, and afterwards worked as a researcher on books for authors including Jeremy Paxman, Felicity Lawrence, John Kay and Alison Wolf. Her books include the international bestselling Indian Summer.


Descriere scurtă

In the past few years, there has been a rush to topple statues. Across the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Belgium and elsewhere, Black Lives Matter protesters defaced and in some cases hauled down statues of slaveholders, Confederate icons, and imperialists.

In Bristol, Edward Colston was knocked off his plinth and hurled into the harbour. Robert E. Lee was covered in graffiti in Richmond, Virginia. Christopher Columbus was toppled in Minnesota, burned and thrown into a lake in Virginia, and beheaded in Massachusetts. King Leopold II of the Belgians was set on fire in Antwerp and doused in red paint in Ghent. Winston Churchill was daubed with the word 'racist' in London. The backlash from conservatives has been fast and intense.

Statues are one of the most visible forms of historical storytelling, maybe the most visible. The stories we tell are vital to how we as societies understand our past and make our future. The ultimate question is: 'who controls history?'

FALLEN IDOLS tells the story of twelve toppled statues around the world. It will look at why they were put up in the first place; the stories they were intended to tell; the symbolism they came to embody; and the manner and consequences of their removal. History is not erased when statues are pulled down. If anything, it is made.