Mobile Ruin

The Everyday Life of the Berlin Wall

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

The Berlin Wall divided the city for almost three decades before it fell on 9 November 1989. But this symbol of the Cold War has been travelling longer than it stood still. An object that once seemed immovable now wanders around the world in every format from two-tonne slabs to pocket-sized souvenirs.This collection envisions the atomized and displaced remnants of the Berlin Wall as a mobile ruin with an evolving history. Blake Fitzpatrick and Vid Ingelevics’s photographic investigation of the geographical dispersement of its fragments is a form of witness to the history of the wall after it fell. Featuring over one hundred photographs, intercut with powerful contextual writings by artists, scholars, and curators (including people involved in souvenir production and sale), this unique work raises compelling questions about the shifting meaning of Berlin Wall artifacts – essentially banal pieces of concrete – in light of their physical relocation and shifts in geopolitical power.Contributing to our understanding of material history, public commemoration, border politics, and documentary studies, The Mobile Ruin explores the ongoing resonance of the wall and the new life it takes on in a series of unexpected international locations.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-05-15
Mått:229 x 254 x 22 mm
Vikt:990 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN:9780228026860

Utforska kategorier

Övrig bildkonst inom Kultur
Konsthistoria inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Blake Fitzpatrick (Editor) Blake Fitzpatrick is professor emeritus in the School of Image Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University, and co-editor of Place Matters: Critical Topographies in Word and Image.Vid Ingelevics (Editor) Vid Ingelevics is professor emeritus, School of Image Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University, and a visual artist, writer, and independent curator.

Recensioner i media

“Beautifully written and intelligently photographed, The Mobile Ruin poses timely questions, tracing a North American obsession with the symbolism of the fall of Berlin Wall, the current trend to solidify and securitize borders around the world, and the paradoxical fetishism of freedom embodied in the wall’s relics.” - Lee Rodney, University of Windsor “The Mobile Ruin transforms documentary into discovery. Part field guide, part elegy, part provocation, this book is a sharp, beautifully argued meditation on memory in motion. Fitzpatrick and Ingelevics show us that the Berlin Wall never stopped falling.” - Justin Jampol, Wende Museum

Innehållsförteckning

PART 1 The Mobile RuinPhotographs and EssaysNorth America and Berlin 3Foreword 9Doina PopescuArlington, VA, and Washington, DC 14Introduction: The Mobile Ruin 21Blake Fitzpatrick and Vid IngelevicsCalifornia and Texas 431 The Iron Curtain and the Concrete Wall: Reading Berlin Wall. Truro, Nova Scotia. 59Robert BeanNova Scotia, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut 722 Fragments of Berlin (Notes on the Retrieval of the Scattered Remnants of the Berlin Wall) 87Jonathan BordoTouching the Wall, Berlin 100Berlin 1023 A Monument in Motion 121Jayne WilkinsonTexas, and Texas/Tijuana Border 1274 Epilogue 133Blake Fitzpatrick and Vid IngelevicsPART 2 The Souvenir ProducersInterviews by Blake Fitzpatrick and Vid IngelevicsIntroduction: The Souvenir Producers 145Blake Fitzpatrick and Vid Ingelevics1 Joe Sciamarelli (New Jersey) 1532 Michael Mammitzsch (Bern) 1583 Heidi Buehler (Berlin) 1634 Thierry Noir (Los Angeles and Berlin) 1675 Johannes Peter (Berlin) 1756 Alwin Nachtweh (Berlin) 1807 Patrice Lux (Berlin) 1848 Axel Klausmeier (Berlin) 1899 Marc Bauder (Toronto) 195Acknowledgments 201Contributors 203