Contemporary Reflections
ed. by Ronald van der Sompel ; texts by Luc Delrue, Mihnea Mircan, Dieter Roelstraete, Eva Wttocx ...[et al.]
- Auteur(s)
- Luc Delrue, Mihnea Mircan, Dieter Roelstraete, Eva Wttocx, ...[et al.]
- Editor(s)
- Ronald van der Sompel
- Uitgever
- Milano : Mousse Publishing, 2014
- Omvang
- 112 p., geïllustreerd, 27 cm.
- Drager
- essay bundle
- ISBN
- 9788867490455
During the night of August 25, 1914, a library holding 230,000 volumes went up in flames. It was the centenary of this incident—the destruction by German troops of the university library in Leuven—that prompted the exhibition Ravaged: Art and Culture in Times of Conflict at M–Museum Leuven (2014) . The destruction of the centuries-old university in Leuven sent a shockwave around the world, heralding the new practice of deliberately destroying libraries and other cultural resources as a strategy of twentieth-century warfare.The exhibition moved from a cultural-historical perspective, focusing on five thematic clusters that recur throughout history in representations of crimes against culture: ravaged cities, ruins, targeted heritage, propaganda, and art theft.
- Trefwoorden
- critical aesthetics , monuments , war , justice , iconoclasm
- Stroom project
- See You in The Hague
- Locatie in de bibliotheek
- Kast 30 - 2: Recht en Vrede ; See You in The Hague
- Opmerkingen
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