Beyond Anitkabir: The Funerary Architecture of Atatürk
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Beyond Anitkabir: The Funerary Architecture of Atatürk

The Construction and Maintenance of National Memory

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Beyond Anitkabir: The Funerary Architecture of Atatürk

The Construction and Maintenance of National Memory

About this book

There have been five different settings that at one time or another have contained the dead body of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 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 Dolmabahçe 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 Atatürk'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 Atatürk. Lastly, the two permanent constructions - the Dolmabahçe 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.

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Yes, you can access Beyond Anitkabir: The Funerary Architecture of Atatürk by Christopher S. Wilson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Architecture & Architecture General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781409429777
eBook ISBN
9781317174844

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Maps
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Funerary Architecture, Representation and Atatürk
  9. 2 Identity, Memory, Nationalism and Architecture
  10. 3 Dolmabahçe Palace
  11. 4 The Ankara Catafalque
  12. 5 Ethnographic Museum Temporary Tomb
  13. 6 Anıtkabir Mausoleum
  14. 7 Maintaining National Memory
  15. Conclusion
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index