{"product_id":"back-to-the-front-isbn-9781568980140","title":"Back to the Front","description":"Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of D-Day, \u003ci\u003eBack to the Front\u003c\/i\u003e is designed by the collaborative team Diller + Scofidio (see also Flesh) and includes their newest project, sited on the tour route of the five D-Day beaches. Seductive in its design and production, \u003ci\u003eBack to the Front\u003c\/i\u003e provides critical analyses of the complex relationship between tourism and war as related forms of conquest.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBack to the Front\u003c\/i\u003e is comprised of three sections. The first presents suitCase Studies: the Production of a National Past, an installation by Diller + Scofidio exhibited in the U.S. and France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second portion consists of original texts on the theme of war and tourism by five contemporary authors, whose fields range from hilosophy to cultural theory to fiction: George Van den Abbeele envisages \"Militarism and Tourism as transcultural forms of invasion in competition with each other\"; Jean-Louis Dotte shows that \"tourism no longer feeds solely on the wartime event...it is no longer soft, contemporary form of conquest...Tourism, rather, becomes an essential military objective\"; Thomas Keenan interrogates the hyper-mediatization of these same wars \"as proof of the birth of new strategic requirements, cultural and media-oriented alike, for military strategies\"; Frederick Migayrou inquires into \"a territorial application, the landings and mechanics behind them, so as to enhance, in negative relief, an impossible psychology of combat, one that arises from a procedural complexity leading the body to...its total destruction\"; and Lynne Tillman offers the novella \"Lust for Loss.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe final section of the book is Diller + Scofidio's project: in full color, these five fold-out documents (one for each beach), deploy hybridphoto-drawings and text-weaves to probe the relationship between these confrontations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton Architectural Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44895592186085,"sku":"NP9781568980140","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/back-to-the-front-isbn-9781568980140","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}