Memory and Historicism: Reading Between the Lines of the Built Environment, Germany c. 1900

TitleMemory and Historicism: Reading Between the Lines of the Built Environment, Germany c. 1900
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2004
AuthorsMAIKEN UMBACH
JournalRepresentations
Volume88
Issue1
Pagination26-54
ISSN0734-6018
Abstract

ABSTRACT This article examines how the juxtaposition between the two rival approaches to the past, history and memory, was configured in and through the built environment in the decades around 1900. It argues that memory was not, as some contemporary polemicists suggested, the opposite of academic historicism. It is better understood as a logical continuation of historicism's inherent deconstructivist tendencies.

URLhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rep.2004.88.1.26
DOI10.1525/rep.2004.88.1.26
Short TitleMemory and Historicism
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