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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Komska, Yuliya, author.
Imprint:	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Description:	1 online resource : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Sudeten Germans -- History -- 20th century. Travelers' writings, German -- History and criticism -- 20th century. Sudeten Germans -- Religion. Cold War. Boundaries. Sudeten Germans. Travel. Travelers' writings, German. Bohemian Forest -- Description and travel. Bohemian Forest -- Church history -- 20th century. Bohemian Forest -- In art. Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1945-1992. Germany (West) -- Boundaries -- Czechoslovakia -- History -- 20th century. Czechoslovakia -- Boundaries -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th century. Czechoslovakia. Europe -- Bohemian Forest. Germany (West) Art. Church history. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11239621

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ISBN:	9780226154220 022615422X 9780226154190
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	The Iron Curtain did not exist. Instead, it comprised multiple regional segments, many in the grip of divergent historical and cultural forces for decades, if not centuries. The first cultural studies account of the border's landscape, 'The Icon Curtain' straddles the Bohemian Forest to uncover a far-reaching genealogy of one such section and debunk the stereotype of the unprecedented mid-twentieth-century partition. There, between the 1950s and 1980s, West German locals and Sudeten German expellee newcomers shaped a civilian rampart, the 'prayer wall'.
Other form:	Print version: Komska, Yuliya. Icon curtain 9780226154190

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.