A Vision of Progress and Nostalgia
The Halifax Memorial Tower
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5885030 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Williams (0000-0001-6259-0390, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 243-265 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13527250304766 |
| OpenAlex | W2029480140 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Today, few are able to read the monumental texts of the past; texts that lie clouded in the mists of periods of commemorative zeal, developing senses of nation, and the need to recognise, in monumental forms, a Golden Age. Our ability to read these texts relies on an understanding of not only the historical personages or events being commemorated but the various contexts in which they came to acquire meaning: the circumstances in which the commemorative events took place; the artistic conventions, symbolism and iconography of the time; and the scripting and choreography of the ceremonial performance. In particular, we may also come to understand them in the geographical settings in which they perform. This paper will review these ideas through an understanding of the situation, design, and the 1912 opening ceremonies of the Halifax Memorial Tower, in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Choreography · Epistemology · Iconography · Literature · Nova scotia · Scripting language · Tower · Visual arts · Canadian Identity and History · Computer Science · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2008 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |