Beyond Anıtkabir : the funerary architecture of Atatürk : the construction and maintenance of national memory
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Beyond Anıtkabir : the funerary architecture of Atatürk : the construction and maintenance of national memory
（Ashgate studies in architecture series）
Ashgate, c2013
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-142) and index
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Description
There have been five different settings that at one time or another have contained the dead body of Mustafa Kemal AtatA1/4rk, 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 DolmabahAe 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 AtatA1/4rk'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 AtatA1/4rk. Lastly, the two permanent constructions - the DolmabahAe 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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Funerary Architecture, Representation and Ataturk
- Chapter 2 Identity, Memory, Nationalism and Architecture
- Chapter 3 Dolmabahce Palace
- Chapter 4 The Ankara Catafalque
- Chapter 5 Ethnographic Museum Temporary Tomb
- Chapter 6 An?tkabir Mausoleum
- Chapter 7 Maintaining National Memory
- Chapter 101 Conclusion
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