no luck with abebooks. It's been out of print for a while now (originally from 1996!). here's the description from the publisher:
Back to the Front -- Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of D-Day, Back to the Front 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, Back to the Front provides critical analyses of the complex relationship between tourism and war as related forms of conquest.
Back to the Front 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.
The 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 Déotte 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."
The 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.
Back to the Front: Tourisms of War by Diller/Scofidio
does anyone have a copy of this book that they'd be willing to sell?
no luck with abebooks. It's been out of print for a while now (originally from 1996!). here's the description from the publisher:
Back to the Front -- Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of D-Day, Back to the Front 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, Back to the Front provides critical analyses of the complex relationship between tourism and war as related forms of conquest.
Back to the Front 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.
The 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 Déotte 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."
The 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.
This was a great book. Too bad D+S+R stopped caring about this stuff.
Trying calling Urban Center Books in NY, they might have a copy or know how to get one.
I think it's the +R part that killed this stuff.
I checked Urban Center, and no luck still.
next...
this guy has lots of books, can give it a try.
http://www.stoutbooks.com/cgi-bin/stoutbooks.cgi/
This was the first architecture book I ever bought .... try http://used.addall.com
The British version of Amazon has one for sale...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Back-Front-Tourisms-Elizabeth-Diller/dp/toc/1568980140
great book by the way, it really helped me with my final thesis.
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