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Contemporary Approaches to Commemorative Public Art: Monumental Developments book cover

1st Edition

Contemporary Approaches to Commemorative Public Art Monumental Developments

Edited By Brenda Schmahmann Copyright 2025
254 Pages 17 Color & 56 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 17 Color & 56 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In this collection, a diverse range of international contributors examine commemorative monuments from the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book reveals how those monuments enable new perspectives and understanding of histories as well as a heightened involvement of viewers through not simply their subject matter but also, most crucially, their actual form and design. While some... Read more

Introduction

BRENDA SCHMAHMANN

PART I Contemporary Mnemonic Strategies

1. Of Long and Severed Hands: Sammy Baloji’s Lukasa for Antwerp

ELAINE ERICKSEN SULLIVAN

2. Commemorating Crises in Public Memorials by Antonio Martorell and Scherezade Garcia

MARISA LERER

3. Facilitating and Practising Democratic Citizenship in Contemporary Monument Making: Two Examples from Vienna

TANJA SCHULT

4. Richard Serra and the Fabricated Post-Industrial Landscape

CHRISTIAN BERGER

PART II Rethinking Portraiture

5. On the Plinth/Off the Plinth: Re-imagining the Figurative Monument

TIM COLE

6. Redefining Portraiture in Commemorative Public Art: Four Portrayals of Nelson Mandela

BRENDA SCHMAHMANN

PART III The Temporary versus the Permanent

7. Do Not Make Failure Go Away! "Permanent Temporariness" as a Decolonial Strategy 

ANALAYS ÁlVAREZ HERNẤNDEZ

8. Temporary Commemoration and Permanent Commemoration in Berlin

CHRISTOPHER S. WILSON AND GUL KAҪMAZ ERK

PART IV Creative Engagements with Historical Statues 

9. The Ephemeral as a Strategy of Intervention: Reframing the Columbus Monument in Madrid

JOHANNA SPANKE

10. Two Feminist Performances at and against the Statue of John Bright, Rochdale, England

ALEXANDRA KOKOLI

11. Under Construction: Thomas Lawson’s A Portrait of New York (1989-1993) as a Monument about Monuments 

CLARA J. LAUFFER

12. Enlivened Memory, Post-Monumental Form: Contemporary Artistic Interventions into Commemorative Public Art in Post-Socialist Europe

SEBASTIAN MȔHL

PART V Public Art and Regime Change 

13. Maiming Monuments: Iconoclasm in Visual Culture after Yugoslavia

STAFFAN LÖFVING

14. “Applause for the past”?: Danie De Jager’s sculpture Applause (1981) and the Recontextualization of Public Art in Pretoria

MELISSA GERBER 

Biography

Brenda Schmahmann is a Professor and the SARChI Chair in South African Art and Visual Culture at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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