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• Title:Modelscapes of nationalism : collective memories and future visions / Yael Padan.
  
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• Author/Creator:Padan, Yael, author.
  
• Published/Created:Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
  ©2017
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NA2790 .P26 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Architectural models--Israel.
  
• Description:234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Heritage and memory studies.
  
• Summary:Modelscapes are clusters of miniature architectural models that represent entire environments. They're frequently found in museums as representations of heritage, architecture, and collective identity. This book offers a critical analysis of modelscapes, using case studies from Israel, to show how miniature representations of contested physical space participate in the construction of a sense of national identity and appropriation of the land and its history. What, Yael Padan asks, is the meaning of such models, and what role do they play within the context of an ongoing violent conflict over territory and history?
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9089649859 hardback
  9789089649850 hardback
  9789048529018 electronic book
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: What are Models?
  Modelscapes
  Case Studies
  1. Qualities of Modelscapes
  Models and Modern Modes of Perception
  Visual Perception as a Product of Social Relations
  Visual Objects as Makers of Culture
  Historicizing Visual Culture
  Contemporary Modes of Vision
  Collection and Classification
  Model as Representation
  Copy
  Model, Image and Text
  Experience, Performance and Play
  Models and Architecture
  Perception of Architecture
  On Scale and the Body
  Interior and Exterior Modelscapes
  2. Models and Modern Perceptions of Nationalism
  Perception of Time and Modern Nationalism
  Verbal Model: Utopia
  Models and the Construction of Collective Identity in Modernity
  Theories of the Emergence of Modern National Identity
  Modelscapes as Representations of National Space
  Modelscapes as Signifiers of National Identity
  Time and Enclosure
  3. Second Temple Model
  Designing the Second Temple Model
  Model of Imperial Rome
  Serious Plaything
  Authenticity
  Second Temple Model as a Representation of Archaeology
  Second Temple Model and the Protestant Perspective
  Representing the Past
  Vision of the Future
  Relocating the Model
  Who Visits the Second Temple Model?
  Updating the Model
  4. Mini Israel
  Mini Israel as a Theme Park
  Politics of the Miniature
  Politics of the Site
  Politics of Utopia: Planning the Site
  Politics of the Sign: Choosing the Models
  Political Economy of Mini Israel
  Politics of the Exhibition: Mini Israel at the Israel Museum
  Politics of the Model: A Partial Inventory
  5. Valley of the Communities
  Collective Memory and its Sites
  Official Holocaust Memory in Israel
  Valley of the Communities in the Context of Minimalist Memorials
  Yad Vashem and the Mount of Remembrance
  Valley of the Communities
  Designing and Building the Site
  Remembering and Forgetting
  Memorial Ritual at the Valley of the Communities
  Performance and Ritual within Memorial Monuments
  Pilgrimages to Holocaust Memorials
  Linking Path March.