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- Grinell, Klas, 1969
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Mosques and Modernism in the Three Phases of the Turkish Republic
- 2021
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Ingår i: New Approach to Cultural Heritage: Profiling Discourse Across Borders / edited by Le Cheng, Jianping Yang, Jianming Cai. - Singapore : Springer. - 9789811652240 ; , s. 73-87
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article builds on interviews with eight Turkish modern architects that were born in the 1930s, conducted in a research project called “Modernity retired”. The main focus of the interviews was the ageing architects’ views on modernism and modernity. Here, I focus on how those views relate to the Muslim heritage of Turkish architecture and more specifically on mosque architecture. The article traces the historical relations between modernist architecture and mosque architecture, with a special focus on the founding fathers of modernism and on Turkish architecture. The key question is how the modernist concept of “function” can be understood in relation to religious practice and architecture. The conclusion is that the modern Turkish history shows more constructive meetings between modernism and Islamic tradition than the current dichotomy between government endorsed neo-Ottomanism and oppositional secular modernism.
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- Zetterman, Eva, 1957
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The U.S.-Mexico Border in Visual Art by Chicanas/os: Transcending National Barriers of Cultural Heritage
- 2021
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Ingår i: New Approach to Cultural Heritage: Profiling Discourse Across Borders / editors : Le Cheng, Jianping Yang, Jianming Cai. - Singapore : Springer. - 9789811652240 ; , s. 307-335
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter investigates contemporary visual art in the USA by Chicanas/os in which the U.S.-Mexico border is the common denominator. The aims of the investigation are: (1) how references to the border are expressed in different ways, (2) how different kinds of references to the border imply expressions that transcend conceptions of the U.S.-Mexico border as a dividing barrier, and (3) how various conceptualizations of the border bring forth understandings of a bina- tional/transcultural heritage that reach across the border and into its both sides. By applying a combination of content analysis, visual semiotics, and social semiotics and drawing from border history and the concept borderlands, a found selection of 30 artworks in different materials and techniques is organized into five thematic clus- ters. These clusters of visual themes and conceptualizations of the border reveal that: (1) a continuity with the past is created through polyvalent visual signs and symbols that adjust themselves to the theme of any composition and (2) temporal and spatial links between colonial pasts, U.S.-Mexico border history, and present conditions in the borderlands bring forth visual expressions of a binational/transcultural heritage that transcend and challenge the U.S.-Mexico border as a national barrier of cultural heritage.
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