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Performative Monuments: The Rematerialisation of Public Art

Performative Monuments: The Rematerialisation of Public Art

Hardcover

Series: Rethinking Art's Histories

Art HistoryGeneral ArtPerformance Art

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ISBN10: 0719091632
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
A man selling kebabs in the shadow of a papier mâché tree; a woman standing with a small stage built around her breasts while people wait their turn to touch them; another woman projecting snapshots of Belgrade with the official buildings painted out: what do these events have in common? All
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

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