Imaginary Athens Urban Space and Memory in Berlin, Tokyo, and Seoul Routledge Studies in Cultural History Series
Auteur : Chun Jin-Sung
This book comprehensively examines architecture, urban planning, and civic perception in three modern cities as they transform into national capitals through an entangled, transnational process that involves an imaginative geography based on embellished memories of classical Athens. Schinkel?s classicist architecture in Berlin, especially the principle of tectonics at its core, came to be adopted effectively at faraway cities in East Asia, merging with the notion of national polity as Imperial Japan sought to reinvent Tokyo and mutating into an inevitable reflection of modern civilization upon reaching colonial Seoul, all of which give reason to ruminate over the phantasmagoria of modernity.
Prologue: The Phantasm(agoria) of Modernity 1. In Search of Prussian Classicism 2. Beyond the Prussia of Asia 3. An Eerie Phantasmagoria of Athena. Epilogue: Sites of Memory, Spaces of Hope
Jin-Sung Chun is a professor of history at Busan National University of Education.
Date de parution : 08-2022
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 11-2020
15.2x22.9 cm
Thème d’Imaginary Athens :
Mots-clés :
Neue Wache; imaginative geography; Japanese Government General; classical Athens; Ancient Greece; Berlin's Schinkel's classicist architecture; West Germany; urban planning; Berlin Palace; Tokyo Imperial University; Japanese Colony; Deutscher Werkbund; Government General Building; neo-Baroque Style; Iwakura Embassy; Land Readjustment; Altes Museum; Oriental Development Company; Colonial Korea; National Assembly Building; King Kojong; Napoleon III; Korean Empire; Urban Planning Law; Hobrecht Plan; Inoue Kaoru; Seoul Museum; Japanese Colonial Rule