Robert Musil has remarked that nothing is more invisible than monuments, explicitly built to gain a maximum in visibility and eloquence: conceived to preserve a social and collective memory, they rapidly become machines of oblivion. In this perspective, monuments belong to the domain of externalized memories, aids for recollecting (hypomnemata), already described by Plato's Phaedrus as structurally connected to amnesia and forgetfulness. Contemporary practices of counter-monumentality have been exploring since the Sixties sophisticated strategies in order to avoid such paradoxical results. My contribution aims at trying a phenomenological and typological description of the main anti-monumental proposals, and at outlining their not less paradoxical implications.
Mnemosyne and amnesia : social memory and the paradoxes of monumental images / A. Pinotti - In: Socioaesthetics : ambience, imaginary / [a cura di] A. Michelsen, Fr. Tygstrup. - Prima edizione. - Leiden : Brill, 2015. - ISBN 9789004246270. - pp. 73-85
Mnemosyne and amnesia : social memory and the paradoxes of monumental images
A. PinottiPrimo
2015
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Robert Musil has remarked that nothing is more invisible than monuments, explicitly built to gain a maximum in visibility and eloquence: conceived to preserve a social and collective memory, they rapidly become machines of oblivion. In this perspective, monuments belong to the domain of externalized memories, aids for recollecting (hypomnemata), already described by Plato's Phaedrus as structurally connected to amnesia and forgetfulness. Contemporary practices of counter-monumentality have been exploring since the Sixties sophisticated strategies in order to avoid such paradoxical results. My contribution aims at trying a phenomenological and typological description of the main anti-monumental proposals, and at outlining their not less paradoxical implications.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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