Monumental Cares : Sites of History and Contemporary Art

Name: Monumental Cares
Brand: Manchester University Press
SKU: 9781526168115
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ISBN: 9781526168115

by Mechtild Widrich

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Rethinking Art's Histories

ISBN-10 1526168111

ISBN-13 9781526168115

Publisher Manchester University Press

Imprint Manchester University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 31st, 2023

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 560 grams

Dimensions 23.40 x 15.70 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: History of art / art & design styles History of art Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc History of architecture

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Monumental cares 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. -- .

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, 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?

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