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The icon curtain : the Cold War's quiet border /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Komska, Yuliya (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Sudeten Germans > History > 20th century.
Bohemian Forest > Description and travel.
Travelers' writings, German > History and criticism > 20th century.
Bohemian Forest Region > Church history > 20th century.
Sudeten Germans > Religion.
Bohemian Forest > In art.
Czechoslovakia > History > 1945-1992.
Germany (West) > Boundaries > Czechoslovakia > History > 20th century.
Czechoslovakia > Boundaries > Germany (West) > History > 20th century.
Cold War.
HISTORY / Europe / Eastern.
Table of Contents:
  • Conditions: ruins of the Cold War
  • Cornerstones: iconoclasm and the making of the prayer wall
  • Infrastructure: civilian border travel and travelogues
  • Uses: visual nostalgia at the prayer wall
  • Epilogue: tragic frames.