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A Journey with My Daughter

By: Maria Tumarkin

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Otherland

A Journey with My Daughter

By: Maria Tumarkin

I left too early, before tanks rolled into Moscow in 1991, and before Gorbachev was put under home arrest in a failed coup. I left before Russia and Ukraine became separate countries, before the KGB archives were opened, before the Russian version of Wheel of Fortune, before the word 'Gulag' appeared in textbooks. I left before Chechnya, before ...

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1458725510

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Traumascapes

The Power and Fate of Places Transformed by Tragedy

By: Maria M. Tumarkin

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Traumascapes

The Power and Fate of Places Transformed by Tragedy

By: Maria M. Tumarkin

Traumascapes are a distinctive category of places transformed physically and psychically by suffering, part of a scar tissue that stretches across the world.' Maria Tumarkin grew up in the old Soviet Union, and emigrated to Australia as a teenager. In 2004, she embarked on an international odyssey to investigate and write about major sites of violence and suffering. Traumascapes is a powerful meditation on the places she visited: Bali, Berlin, Manhattan, Moscow, Port Arthur, Sarajevo, and the field in Pennsylvania where the fourth plane involved in the attacks of September 11 2001 crashed. In a time when terror and tragedy flourish these locations exhibit a compelling power, drawing pilgrims and tourists from around the world who want to understand the meaning of the traumatic events that unfolded there. In traumascapes, life goes on but the past is still unfinished business.

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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0522851770

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9780522851779

Axiomatic

By: Maria Tumarkin

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Axiomatic

By: Maria Tumarkin

Janet Malcolm meets The Empathy Exams, in a genre-bending work on how we understand the traumas we inherit.

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1945492295

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Otherland

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Traumascapes

The Power and Fate of Places Transformed by Tragedy

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The Power and Fate of Places Transformed by Tragedy

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The Museum as a Political Instrument

Post-Soviet Memories and Conflicts

By: Maria Mikaelyan

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The Museum as a Political Instrument

Post-Soviet Memories and Conflicts

By: Maria Mikaelyan

Remembrance and commemoration of traumatic histories are among the major issues of today’s international museological practice. By means of architectural and exhibition design, contemporary museums pose questions concerning history, memory, national identity, alternative perceptions of the past. The present essay poses theoretical questions concerning the impact of a national political discourse on the commemoration of difficult and contentious pasts, as well as the top-down instrumentalization of architectural and exhibition design in the realm of contemporary Russian museological practice.

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LetteraVentidue Edizioni

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8862427131

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9788862427135

Heroes and Victims

Remembering War in Twentieth-century Romania

By: Maria Bucur,Maria Bucur-Deckard

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Heroes and Victims

Remembering War in Twentieth-century Romania

By: Maria Bucur,Maria Bucur-Deckard

The cultural politics of commemorating war.

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Indiana University Press

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0253353785

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9780253353788

Performing Pain

Music and Trauma in Eastern Europe

By: Maria Cizmic

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Performing Pain

Music and Trauma in Eastern Europe

By: Maria Cizmic

Time after time, people turn to music when coping with traumatic life events. Music can help process emotions, interpret memories, and create a sense of collective identity. In Performing Pain, author Maria Cizmic focuses on the late 20th century in Eastern Europe as she uncovers music's relationships to trauma and grief. The 1970s and 1980s witnessed a cultural preoccupation in this region with the meanings of historical suffering, particularly surrounding the Second World War and the Stalinist era. Journalists, historians, writers, artists, and filmmakers frequently negotiated themes related to pain and memory, truth and history, morality and spirituality during glasnost and the years leading up to it. Performing Pain considers how works by composers Alfred Schnittke, Galina Ustvolskaya, Arvo Part, and Henryk Gorecki musically address contemporary concerns regarding history and suffering through composition, performance, and reception.Taking theoretical cues from psychology, sociology, and literary and cultural studies, Cizmic offers a set of hermeneutic essays that demonstrate the ways in which people employ music in order to make sense of historical traumas and losses. Seemingly postmodern compositional choices--such as quotation, fragmentation, and stasis--create musical analogies to psychological and emotional responses to trauma and grief, and the physical realities of their embodied performance focus attention on the ethics of pain and representation. Furthermore, as film music, these works participate in contemporary debates regarding memory and trauma. A comprehensive and innovative study, Performing Pain will fascinate scholars interested in the music of Eastern Europe and in aesthetic articulations of suffering.

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OUP USA

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0199734607

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9780199734603

The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev

By: Maria Rogacheva

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The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev

By: Maria Rogacheva

Rogacheva sheds new light on the complex transition of Soviet society from Stalinism into the post-Stalin era. Using the case study of Chernogolovka, one of dozens of scientific towns built in the USSR under Khrushchev, she explains what motivated scientists to participate in the Soviet project during the Cold War. Rogacheva traces the history of this scientific community from its creation in 1956 through the Brezhnev period to paint a nuanced portrait of the living conditions, political outlook, and mentality of the local scientific intelligentsia. Utilizing new archival materials and an extensive oral history project, this book argues that Soviet scientists were not merely bought off by the Soviet state, but that they bought into the idealism and social optimism of the post-Stalin regime. Many shared the regime's belief in the progressive development of Soviet society on a scientific basis, and embraced their increased autonomy, material privileges and elite status.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108171338

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9781108171335

Surgery of the Cerebellopontine Angle

By: Bernard L. Maria,Nicholas C. Bambakidis,Cliff A. Megerian,Robert Friedrich Spetzler

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Surgery of the Cerebellopontine Angle

By: Bernard L. Maria,Nicholas C. Bambakidis,Cliff A. Megerian,Robert Friedrich Spetzler

This is a single volume text which meshes the information available in surgical atlases with clinical disease entities.

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PMPH-USA

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1607950014

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9781607950011

The Artist as Producer

Russian Constructivism in Revolution

By: Maria Gough

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The Artist as Producer

Russian Constructivism in Revolution

By: Maria Gough

The Artist as Producer confronts the problem of making a politics with art. Gough's balanced rigor in mining obscure archives on the one hand, while performing brilliant readings of recalcitrant artworks on the other gives her account of Constructivism's utopian promise and less-than-utopian outcome great texture. She has produced something very rare: an art-historical study that not only adds to our knowledge but captures the intense poignancy of modern art's serious ambition to undertake a revolution of—and with—form."—David Joselit, Professor, History of Art, Yale University "To see a sculptor plunging into the politics and the cultural politics of the factory floor is a rare sight indeed in art history. It takes immense historical discipline to do it justice. Maria Gough takes the 'author as producer' question dear to Marxist aesthetics (think of Walter Benjamin, but think also of Trotsky, of Gramsci) and raises it into new relevance. The question always was and is a motor. This book shows us, beautifully, how and why."—Molly Nesbit, Professor of Art, Vassar College "The Artist as Producer is a remarkable and impressive piece of scholarship, which challenges existing assumptions about Soviet Constructivism and demands that we rethink the movement in its entirety."—Christina Lodder, author of Russian Constructivism

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Univ of California Press

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0520226186

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9780520226180

Book's by Maria Tumarkin

Otherland

Otherland

Traumascapes

Traumascapes

Axiomatic

Axiomatic

Otherland

Otherland

Traumascapes

Traumascapes

The Museum as a Political Instrument

The Museum as a Political Instrument

Heroes and Victims

Heroes and Victims

Performing Pain

Performing Pain

The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev

The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev

Surgery of the Cerebellopontine Angle

Surgery of the Cerebellopontine Angle

The Artist as Producer

The Artist as Producer

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