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Beyond Anıtkabir : the funerary architecture of Atatürk : the construction and maintenance of national memory
- Title
- Beyond Anıtkabir : the funerary architecture of Atatürk : the construction and maintenance of national memory / Christopher S. Wilson.
- Author
- Wilson, Christopher Samuel, 1967-
- Publication
- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]
- Supplementary Content
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JQE 16-460 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
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- Description
- ix, 149 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- There have been five different settings that at one time or another have contained the dead body of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, organizer of the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923) and first president of the Republic of Turkey. Narrating the story of these different architectural constructions - the bedroom in Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul, where he died; a temporary catafalque in this same palace; his funeral stage in Turkey's new capital Ankara; a temporary tomb in the Ankara Ethnographic Museum and his permanent and monumental mausoleum in Ankara, known in Turkish as "Anıtkabir" (Memorial Tomb) - this book also describes and interprets the movement of Ataturk's body through the cities of Istanbul and Ankara and also the nation of Turkey to reach these destinations. The book examines how each one of these locations - accidental, designed, temporary, permanent - has contributed in its own way to the construction of a Turkish national memory about Ataturk. Lastly, the two permanent constructions - the Dolmabahçe Palace bedroom and Anıtkabir - have changed in many ways since their first appearance in order to maintain this national memory. These changes are exposed to reveal a dynamic, rather than dull, impression of funerary architecture.
- Series Statement
- Ashgate studies in architecture series
- Uniform Title
- Ashgate studies in architecture series.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-142) and index.
- Call Number
- JQE 16-460
- ISBN
- 9781409429777
- 1409429776
- LCCN
- 2013017869
- OCLC
- 843454930
- Author
- Wilson, Christopher Samuel, 1967-
- Title
- Beyond Anıtkabir : the funerary architecture of Atatürk : the construction and maintenance of national memory / Christopher S. Wilson.
- Publisher
- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Ashgate studies in architecture seriesAshgate studies in architecture series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-142) and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: RINGLING COLL. OF ART & DESIGN. HOW THE STRUCTURES HELPED CONSTRUCT NATIONAL MEMORIES.
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- Research Call Number
- JQE 16-460