(Im)permanence
Subtitle: cultures in/out of time
By: [edited by Judith Schachter & Stephen Brockmann].
Contributors: Modell, Judith Schachter, 1941-; Brockmann, Stephen.
Publisher: Center for the Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon University; Distributed by the Penn State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, PA; [University Park, Pa.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780979766404
Subjects: Art -- Philosophy -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Impermanence.
Description: "[This work] explores the interplay between permanence and impermanence in cultural and artistic practices in the West and elsewhere ... [and] addresses particularly crucial artists, including Robert Smithson and Andy Goldsworthy, as well as a wide variety of historical epochs and cultures, from the destroyed Buddhas at Bamiyan through attempts at preservation and commemoration in the wake of historical catastrophes like 9/11 and the genocide in Cambodia to the current trend toward globalization in contemporary art."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Statement of responsibility from jacket.

Proceedings of the conference "(Im)permanence: cultures in/out of time" sponsored by the Carnegie Mellon's Center for the Arts in Society in October 2005.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: How art lasts : curating, archiving, and performing; title: Making memories, imagining identity; title: Technological interventions; title: Transforming the "permanent"; title: Cultural monuments.