Memory and the merchants: Commemoration and civic identity

Autor:	Sally J. Morgan
Rok vydání:	1998
Předmět:	Cultural Studies History Museology Geography Planning and Development Section (typography) Identity (social science) Art history Conservation Power (social and political) Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management Public history Law Rhetorical question Narrative Architecture Period (music)
Zdroj:	International Journal of Heritage Studies. 4:103-113
ISSN:	1470-3610 1352-7258
DOI:	10.1080/13527259808722225
Popis:	Civic art, in the form of statuary, architecture and the like, has been used extensively in our modern cities as an apparatus of social memory. In the Victorian period memorials proliferated across Europe and were often used to represent civic authority in the guise of monuments to great men. Through a study of commemorative art and architecture in the English City of Bristol, which is focused on memorials to the two notable Bristolians, Edward Colston and John Cabot, the paper uncovers the way that civic commemorations have been used to construct rhetorical narratives of power through selective interpretations of municipal memory. In the final section a modern commemoration, the sailing of the replica of John Cabot's ship, ‘Matthew,’ in 1997, is examined and is seen to have a similar rhetorical construction to its Victorian precursors.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz:	https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::153439cb5420eb5fcd8abd74caf7f1d9 https://doi.org/10.1080/13527259808722225 Zobrazit plný text záznamu