Beyond Anitkabir: The Funerary Architecture of Atatürk

The Construction and Maintenance of National Memory

Christopher S. Wilson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

162 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-27487-7 (ISBN)

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There have been five different settings that at one time or another have contained the dead body of Mustafa Kemal AtatÃ¼rk, 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 DolmabahÃ§e 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 ’Anitkabir’ (Memorial Tomb) - this book also describes and interprets the movement of AtatÃ¼rk’s body through the cities of Istanbul and Ankara and also the nation of Turkey to reach these destinations. It 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 AtatÃ¼rk. Lastly, the two permanent constructions - the DolmabahÃ§e Palace bedroom and Anitkabir - 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.

Christopher S. Wilson teaches architecture and design history at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, USA.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Funerary Architecture, Representation and Atatürk; Chapter 2 Identity, Memory, Nationalism and Architecture; Chapter 3 Dolmabahçe Palace; Chapter 4 The Ankara Catafalque; Chapter 5 Ethnographic Museum Temporary Tomb; Chapter 6 An?tkabir Mausoleum; Chapter 7 Maintaining National Memory; Chapter 101 Conclusion;

Erscheinungsdatum	07.09.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-138-27487-9 / 1138274879
ISBN-13	978-1-138-27487-7 / 9781138274877
Zustand	Neuware