This paper addresses some crucial categories in contemporary practices of memorialisation and public sculpture, including the polarities of “abstraction / figuration” and “transitivity / intransitivity” and the questions of anthropomorphism and embodiment. Referring to paradigmatic cases belonging to different media—sculpture, architecture, video installations—and comparing different memorialistic subjects (the Holocaust memorials, the Italian fascist sacraria, the monuments dedicated to the Vietnam war), the chapter investigates the dialectics of presence and absence in the relationship between the present material body of the monument and the absent bodies evoked by the process of memorialisation.
The Well-Tempered Memorial: Abstraction, Anthropomorphism, Embodiment / A. Pinotti - In: Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts / [a cura di] A. Violi, B. Grespi, A. Pinotti, P. Conte. - Prima edizione. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020. - ISBN 9789089648525. - pp. 325-341 (( convegno Corps en pierre : Monumentalisation du corps et mémoires somatiques tenutosi a Milano nel 2013.
Titolo: | The Well-Tempered Memorial: Abstraction, Anthropomorphism, Embodiment |
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Parole Chiave: | Abstraction; anthropomorphism; embodiment; memorialisation; monumentality |
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare: | Settore M-FIL/04 - Estetica Settore L-ART/03 - Storia dell'Arte Contemporanea Settore L-ART/04 - Museologia e Critica Artistica e del Restauro |
Data di pubblicazione: | 2020 |
Enti collegati al convegno: | Collège International de Philosophie; Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Milano; Punctum, Centro studi sull’immagine, Università degli Studi di Bergamo |
URL: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv12sdvn4.26 |
Tipologia: | Book Part (author) |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 03 - Contributo in volume |
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