"STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY"? MONUMENTS AND (ART-)HISTORICAL AWARENESS
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26420%2F26%3A0197842" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26420/26:0197842 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hith.12382" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hith.12382</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hith.12382" target="_blank" >10.1111/hith.12382</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
"STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY"? MONUMENTS AND (ART-)HISTORICAL AWARENESS
Original language description
Can past agents deliberately influence our historical awareness by designing objects' appearances and sending them to us down the stream of time? We know they have certainly tried to do so by raising monuments. But according to an influential narrative, the efforts of the "monumentalists" are destined to fail: no monument can keep a legacy alive in perpetuity. In this article, I argue that this narrative misrepresents the nature of the monumentalists' mission, and I set out to show that monumentality should be understood as a means of addressing what I term "art-historical awareness." This mode of historical awareness attends to artifacts' appearances in search of visual manifestations of relevance that can survive the loss of context. Those who raise monuments aim to produce such artifacts, or what amount to intentional art-historical documents, and they do so in order to overcome the tension between the monuments' nature as public art and their commemorative function. By visually manifesting a transcendent relevance, monuments ideally appeal to both present and distant audiences, insofar as these audiences are able to appreciate the monuments' potential to sustain at least a semblance of relevance beyond their immediate contexts.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60401 - Arts, Art history
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
History and Theory
ISSN
0018-2656
e-ISSN
1468-2303
Volume of the periodical
64
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
338-358
UT code for WoS article
001449689900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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