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Monumental cares


Monumental cares

Sites of history and contemporary art
Rethinking Art's Histories

von: Mechtild Widrich

39,99 €

Verlag: Manchester University Press
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 31.01.2023
ISBN/EAN: 9781526168092
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 256

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<i>Monumental cares</i> rethinks monument debates, site specificity and art activism in light of problems that strike us as monumental or overwhelming, such as war, migration and the climate crisis. The book shows how artists address these issues, from Chicago and Berlin to Oslo, Bucharest and Hong Kong, in media ranging from marble and glass to postcards, graffiti and re-enactment. A multidirectional theory of site does justice to specific places but also to how far-away audiences see them. What emerges is a new ethics of care in public art, combined with a passionate engagement with reality harking back to the realist aesthetics of the nineteenth century. Familiar questions can be answered anew: what to do with monuments, particularly when they are the products of terror and require removal, modification or recontextualisation? And can art address the monumental concerns of our present?
<i>Monumental cares</i> links the monument debate of the last decade to the history of realism, showing how art can address problems like the climate crisis, migration and authoritarian politics. Case studies range from Chicago and Berlin to Oslo, Bucharest and Hong Kong, in media ranging from marble and glass to cardboard, graffiti and re-enactment.
<p>Who cares? An introduction<br>1 The sites of history<br>2 Cold War in stone – and plastic<br>3 Materializing art geographies<br>4 Reversing monumentality<br>5 Reflections<br>6 Drawing pain: political art in circulation <br>Caring about monuments: a conclusion<br>Index</p>
Mechtild Widrich is Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and author of
<i>Performative Monuments </i>(2014)
<p>‘<i>Monumental cares</i> is a well-crafted intellectual accomplishment, inviting readers to think of monuments as instructions for what the public sphere is or could be.’<br> <b>Elke Krasny, Professor for Art and Education, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna</b><br><br>‘At a time when collective action seems thwarted by the intractable forces of climate change and political injustice, Widrich reveals the capacity of art to jolt the collective nerve into more ambitious forms of care. A tour de force.’<br> <b>Jorge Otero-Pailos, Professor and Director of Historic Preservation, Columbia University</b><br><br> ‘This book makes a compelling case for a layered perspective that sees the monumental in its complex and interrelational potential: as history materialized through art.’<br> <b>Jacek Ludwig Scarso, Reader in Art and Performance, London Metropolitan University</b><br><br>This book explores the monument debates of the early twenty-first century. Presenting a series of case studies ranging from Chicago and Berlin to Oslo, Bucharest, and Hong Kong, it argues that history is being materialized by contemporary artists and activists in ways that hark back to the emotionally engaged realism of nineteenth-century art, but expanded to include experiences of caring live and on social media, as well as vaster, less tangible systems of power and information. <br><br>What should we do with monuments that are products of terror? And how can we achieve an accessible public sphere, responsive to local needs and global constraints, environmental or otherwise? <i>Monumental cares </i>reconsiders these questions with one eye on the history of monument activism and the other on the future.</p>

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