Confessions of monuments: Commemorating and representing the Turkish nation-state in the early twentieth...

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Emin Artun Ozguner

Confessions of monuments

Name: Confessions of monuments
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Commemorating and representing the Turkish nation-state in the early twentieth century

Emin Artun Ozguner

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English

Manchester University Press
01 July 2026

Museums & museology; Middle Eastern history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Nationalism

Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture

Following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1920s, an emerging nation state built a particular relationship with the Ottoman past. In its simultaneous disavowal and inheritance of it, this was the new Republic of Turkey, founded in 1923. Nation-states are areas of ideological contestation. However, they are equally visible and tangible. This is thanks to the making of a new world of artefacts in build or print that represent and commemorate them in many, often contradicting ways through design practices. This book offers a thorough account of this new Turkish material world through the trajectories of commemoration; from public monuments, print media, and festive illumination to temporary and permanent architecture from the onset of the 1908 Young Turk revolution to the demise of Turkey's founding single-party regime in the late 1950s. If objects are silent actors of history, their confessions await.

By: Emin Artun Ozguner
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 810g
ISBN: 9781526176233
ISBN 10: 1526176238
Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 01 July 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Artun Ozguner is a Senior Lecturer in Contextual and Theoretical Studies at the University for the Creative Arts