Memory Art in the Contemporary World poetically adapting listed buildings for

poetically adapting listed buildings for the 21st century

yet devoid of religious meanings or implications

seeing and feeling is skilfully presented

Elkington played a crucial role in shaping and building the V&A’s permanent collection from its foundation in 1852 (following the Great Exhibition) until the First World War

Towards Another Architecture brings together contributions from practitioners and thinkers working in a range of fields and geographies to advocate their vision(s) for another architecture

Memory Art in the Contemporary World poetically adapting listed buildings forMemory Art in the Contemporary World deals with the ever expanding field of transnational memory art, which has emerged from a political need to come to terms with traumatic historical pasts, from the Holocaust to apartheid, colonialism, state terror and civil war. The book focuses on the work of several contemporary artists from beyond the Northern Transatlantic, including William Kentridge, Vivan Sundaram, Doris Salcedo, Nalini Malani and Guillermo