The Art of Forgetting
Forty, Adrian / Küchler, Susanne![The Art of Forgetting](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/335/33593160/CHSBZCOP0333593160.jpg)
In tracing the process through which monuments give rise to collective memories, this path-breaking book emphasizes that memorials are not just inert and amnesiac spaces upon which individuals may graft their ever-shifting memories. To the contrary, the materiality of monuments can be seen to elicit a particular collective mode of remembering which shapes the consumption of the past as a shared cultural form of memory. In a variety of discipli...