The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Napoléon to ISIS
The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: Project Description • Pamela Karimi and Nasser Rabbat
Introduction
The Demise and Afterlife of Artifacts • Pamela Karimi and Nasser Rabbat
Part I: On Erasure and Its Aftermath
Exhibition and Erasure/Art and Politics • Annabel Wharton
Memento Mauri: The Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba • Michele Lamprakos
DNA Damage: Violence Against Buildings • Sussan Babaie
Iconoclasm beyond Negation: Globalization and Image Production in Mosul • Thomas Stubblefield
Part II: On Civility, Barbarity and Acts of Violence Against Inanimate Objects
Artfare: Aesthetic Profiling from Napoléon to Neoliberalism • Kirsten Scheid
The Thing We Love(d): Little Girls, Inanimate Objects, and the Violence of a System • Talinn Grigor
Modernity as Perpetual War or Perpetual Peace? • Esra Akcan
Appendix: A Selection of News Articles on the Destruction of Cultural Heritage in the Middle East