
Performative Monuments: The Rematerialisation of Public Art
Hardcover
Series: Rethinking Art's Histories
Art HistoryGeneral ArtPerformance Art
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ISBN13: 9780719091636
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: May 31 2014
Pages: 226
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
are works of public art. And all take a cue from the fugitive art of performance. The most forceful monuments of the last few decades, whether built to last on national malls or flashed as signs of protest, were in fact designed by performance artists.
This book argues for the conceptual significance of performance, and of a performative model of art, to the revival of the public monument in the wake of the Second World War and the partition of Europe. Through detailed studies of artists working along these ideological fault lines, including Valie
contemporary art, politics, photography and performance theory will find in this book new facts and arguments concerning their interrelation.
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