A01=Artun Ozguner
Author_Artun Ozguner
built environment
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cultural heritage
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forthcoming
material culture
media representations
memory studies
monuments
nation-state
print culture
Turkey
Product details
- ISBN 9781526176233
- Weight: 810g
- Dimensions: 170 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1920s, an emerging nation state built a particular relationship with the Ottoman past. In its simultaneous disavowal and inheritance of it, this was the new Republic of Turkey, founded in 1923. Nation-states are areas of ideological contestation. However, they are equally visible and tangible. This is thanks to the making of a new world of artefacts in build or print that represent and commemorate them in many, often contradicting ways through design practices. This book offers a thorough account of this new Turkish material world through the trajectories of commemoration; from public monuments, print media, and festive illumination to temporary and permanent architecture from the onset of the 1908 Young Turk revolution to the demise of Turkey’s founding single-party regime in the late 1950s. If objects are silent actors of history, their confessions await.
Artun Ozguner is a Senior Lecturer in Contextual and Theoretical Studies at the University for the Creative Arts
