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100 1 Eagles, Department,|eauthor.
245 10 Lapidari 1: Texts.
264 1 North Charleston :|bCreateSpace Independent Publishing
Platform [distributor]|c2015.
264 3 Baltimore, Md. :|bProject MUSE, |c2021.
264 4 |c©2015
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520 8 Annotation|bIn June and July 2014, philologist Vincent
W.J. van Gerven Oei and photographer Marco Mazzi undertook
the Albanian Lapidar Survey, a project to map, document,
and photograph the large majority of Albanian lapidars, a
particular type of monument, mainly produced in the period
that the communist Labor Party of Albania ruled the
country (1945-1990) to commemorate the partisan victims,
battles, and military units from the National Anti-Fascist
Liberation War (which coincided with World War II), as
well as historical figures from before the liberation and
the accomplishments of socialism in Albania afterward.
These lapidars, which can still be found, albeit in ever
decreasing numbers, all over the country -- in cities and
villages, alongside roads, in forests and on mountain
passes -- are witness to an enormous expenditure of labor
and resources to turn the landscape into a site of what
was called "monumental propaganda." The Albanian Lapidar
Survey aimed to capture these monuments as fact. The
results of this project are collected into a three-volume,
dual-language (English and Albanian) catalogue, under the
title Lapidari. The first volume comprises a series of
critical reflections on Albanian monumentality of the
period 1945-1990 from a variety of perspectives, as well
as historical documents and a full indexation of all
inscriptions found on the documented monuments. Volumes 2
and 3 feature the photographic documentation of all 649
recorded monumental sites by photographer Marco Mazzi.
Table of ContentsVolume 1: TEXTS: Vincent W.J. van Gerven
Oei // Introduction -- People's Republic of Albania,
Ministry of Education, Directorate of Culture // Circular
to the Prefectural Executive Committee (Section Education)
: Regarding Lapidars (1946) -- Ramiz Alia // Report on the
State and Measures for the Development and Further
Revolutionizing of Monumental Propaganda (1968) -- Kujtim
Buza & Kleanth Dedi // Dignified Symbols for Historical
Events (1971) -- Muharrem Xhafa // Natural and Cultural
Monuments during the Years of Socialism -- Gëzim Qëndro //
The Thanatology of Hope -- Raino Isto // "We Raise Our
Eyes and Feel as if She Rules the Sky": The Mother Albania
Monument and the Visualization of National History --
Kosta Giakoumis & Christopher Lockwood // Pilgrimage
Centered at Text and Memory: The Lapidar in Qukës-Pishkash
-- Matthias Bickert // Lapidars and Socialist Monuments as
Elements of Albania's Historic Cultural Landscapes --
Julian Bejko // About the Film Lapidari -- Ardian Vehbiu /
/ Texts Chiseled on the Calendar: A Semiotic Reading of
Inscriptions on the Commemorative Monuments for the Period
of the National Liberation War -- Monument Descriptions:
Index of Names, Index of Places, Index of DatesVolumes 2-3
feature the photographic documentation of all 649 recorded
monumental sites by photographer Marco Mazzi.
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700 1 Van Gerven Oei, Vincent,|eeditor.
710 2 Project Muse,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
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856 40 |zOnline eBook. Open Access via Project Muse. |uhttps://
muse.jhu.edu/book/84302/
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