Monuments and site-specific sculpture in urban and rural space
By: edited by Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781443851794
Subjects: Site-specific installations (Art); Congresses
Description: Monuments and Site-Specific Sculpture in Urban and Rural Space presents a collection of essays discussing works of art whose formal qualities, content and spatial interactions expand our idea of creation and commemoration. By addressing projects that range from war memorials to commemorations of individuals, as well as works that engage real and virtual environments, this book brings to light new aspects concerning twentieth and twenty-first century monuments and site-specific sculpture. The book addresses the work of, among others, Günter Demnig, Michael Heizer, Thomas Hirschhorn, Dani Karavan, Costantino Nivola, Melissa Shiff and John Craig Freeman, Robert Smithson, and Micha Ullman. A lucid, thought-provoking discussion of creative processes and the discourse between site-specific sculpture and its publics is provided in this collection. As such, it is vital and indispensable for historians, art historians and artists, as well as for every reader interested in the interrelations of art, urban and rural spaces, community and the makings of memory.
Notes: " .. for the winter of 2014 .. the Department of the Arts in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev .. organized an international symposium entitled 'Monuments, Site-Specific Sculpture, and Urban Space.'" -- p. 2.

Includes bibliographical references.