Monumental

Argyro Loukaki is Professor Emerita at the Hellenic Open University (HOU). She has a DPhil from Oxford University, an MSc in Architectural Engineering from NTUA, an MA from Sussex University, and an MSc from Panteion University. She has obtained doctoral/postdoctoral fellowships and prizes from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation and universities including Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, NTUA, and the universities of Oxford and Princeton. Loukaki created the Master’s Program “Art-Cultural Heritage-Development Policies” and launched bi-annual international conferences on art and/in space held at the Acropolis Museum. Earlier, she accomplished urban planning, architectural design and monuments’ preservation projects as a functionary of the Greek state, including archaeological landscaping and restoration, and was Planning Advisor to the City of Piraeus. She has authored 11 books plus many articles and monographs in English and Greek on art, architecture and space, cultural heritage, restoration and its aesthetics, Mediterranean cultural geography and the geographical unconscious, tourism, landscape, and the spatialities of Classical Greek tragedy. The Monumental is the fourth by Routledge. Previous books by Routledge include: Living Ruins, Value Conflicts; The Geographical Unconscious; Urban Art and the City: Creating, Destroying, and Reclaiming the Sublime.

• List of figuresList of contributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Towards an ontology and epistemology of the monumentalARGYRO LOUKAKIPART IThe Mediterranean as source of monumentality and sublimity from prehistory to the present 1 The monumentalization of Mycenaean architecture after 1200 BCEMANOLIS MIKRAKIS2 Monumentality as a form of societal expression: The case of Naxiwn Polis in the Archaic periodALEXANDRA S. SFYROERA3 Shaping the ancient urban landscape: Monumentality in the cities of Roman GreeceVASILIS EVANGELIDIS4 Hagia Sophia, monumentality, and the world stageROBERT G. OUSTERHOUT5 The perception of monuments in Late Byzantium and beyond: Representations of donors holding a church modelDIONYSIOS MOURELATOS6 The other monument: From monumentality to mnemonicalityKONSTANTINOS I. SOUEREFPART IIModern and ultramodern dialogues with Classical monumentality: Exaltations, antagonisms, disputes, retractions7 Political monuments as references to the idealized ancient landscapeKONSTANTINOS MORAITIS8 Building modern sacred geographies: The subtle monumental of Dimitris PikionisARGYRO LOUKAKI9 Monumentalizing historical time: Body, nation, and utopia in 20th-century GreeceDIMITRIS PLANTZOSPART IIIThe Eastern and Western monumental from antiquity to the present10 The East-West divide, the Eastern monumental and Greek classicism: The case of China and IndiaARGYRO LOUKAKI11 On the monumental MANOLIS KORRES12 Architecture of magnificence: Monumental tendencies in mid-18th-century architectural discourseFELIX MARTIN13 A particular kind of monumentality in the work of Mark RothkoKALLIOPI KOUNDOURI14 Postwar social housing: the (anti)monumentality of Georges CandilisKORINNA ZINOVIA WEBER15 Monumentality, skyscrapers, and being humanGORDANA KOROLIJA FONTANA-GIUSTIPART IVBridging the European center with the Mediterranean periphery: 19th–21st-century artistic and architectural links16 Monumentality, poetry, and memory: Eugène Delacroix’s The Death of Sardanapalus and Yannoulis Halepas’s Sleeping LadyMELITA EMMANOUIL17 Monumentality and the Great National Donors in Greek cityscapes: Phantasmagoria in the midst of crisesLILA LEONTIDOUConcluding thoughtsARGYRO LOUKAKIIndex