Performative Monuments: The Rematerialisation of Public Art - Couverture souple

Livre 12 sur 59: Rethinking Art's Histories

Widrich, Mechtild

 
9780719095917: Performative Monuments: The Rematerialisation of Public Art
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ISBN 10 : 0719095913 ISBN 13 : 9780719095917
Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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 making self-undermining monuments. This book argues that the centrality of performance to monuments and indeed public art in general rests not on its ephemerality or anti-authoritarian rhetoric, but on its power to build interpersonal bonds both personal and social. Specifically, the survival of body art in photographs that cross time and space to meet new audiences makes it literally into a monument.

The argument of the book spans art in Austria, the former Yugoslavia, and Germany: Valie Export, Peter Weibel and the Viennese Actionists (working in Austria and abroad), Marina Abramovic, Sanja Ivecovic and Braco Dimitrijevic (working in Yugoslavia and abroad), and Joseph Beuys and Jochen Gerz (working in Germany and abroad). These artists began by critiquing monumentality in authoritarian public space, and expanded the models developed on the streets of Vienna, Munich, Rome, Belgrade and Zagreb to participatory monuments that delegate political authority to the audience.

Readers interested in contemporary art, politics, photography and performance will find in this book new facts and arguments for their interconnection.

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À propos de l?auteur

Mechtild Widrich is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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Éditeur
Manchester University Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0719095913
ISBN 13 
9780719095917
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0719091632 ISBN 13 :  9780719091636
Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2014
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