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Performative monuments
The rematerialisation of public art
Häftad, 2014
301 kr
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This book answers one of the most puzzling questions in contemporary art: how did performance artists of the ‘60s and ‘70s, famous for their opposition both to lasting art and the political establishment, become the foremost monument builders of the ‘80s, ‘90s and today? Not by selling out, nor by …
Participation in Art and Architecture
Spaces of Interaction and Occupation
Av Martino Stierli, Mechtild Widrich
E-bok, 2015
514 kr
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Does 'participatory' art and architecture shape social reality, or is it shaped by it? Shifting the ground of this debate, which tends to assume one or other direction of influence, this innovative book explores the inherently dialectic relationship between society and the built environment. At the …
Participation in Art and Architecture
Spaces of Interaction and Occupation
Av Martino Stierli, Mechtild Widrich
Häftad, 2022
471 kr
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If participation has been an ideal in politics since ancient democracy, in art it became central only with the avant-gardes emerging from WWI and the Russian Revolution. Politics and aesthetics are still catching up with each other. In the 21st century, since the revolutionary unrest of the 1960s, …
Monumental Cares
Sites of History and Contemporary Art
Inbunden, 2023
810 kr
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Monumental cares 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, …
Participation in Art and Architecture
Spaces of Interaction and Occupation
Av Martino Stierli, Mechtild Widrich
Inbunden, 2015
2038 kr
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Does ‘participatory’ art and architecture shape social reality, or is it shaped by it?Shifting the ground of this debate, which tends to assume one or other direction of influence, this innovative book explores the inherently dialectic relationship between society and the built environment. At the …
Ugliness
The Non-beautiful in Art and Theory
Av Andrei Pop, Mechtild Widrich
Häftad, 2015
387 kr
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Ugliness is very much alive in the history of art. From ritual invocations of mythic monsters to the scare tactics of the early twentieth-century avant-garde, from the cabinet of curiosities to the identity politics of today, the ugly has been every bit as active as the beautiful, and often much …
Remembering Difficult Pasts
Monuments and Public Memory in Europe
Av Abigail Lewis, Clemens Sedmak m. fl.
Häftad, 2027
558 kr
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Monuments and memorials, as symbols built intentionally into the environment, are important frames for understanding how narratives of the past are constructed and reconstructed over time. Europe’s memorial landscape is rife with debate about which pasts to remember, how to remember them, and whose …
Monumental Cares
Sites of History and Contemporary Art
Häftad, 2023
374 kr
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Monumental cares 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, …
