"STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY"? MONUMENTS AND (ART-)HISTORICAL AWARENESS

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

"STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY"? MONUMENTS AND (ART-)HISTORICAL AWARENESS

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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 Those who raise monuments aim to produce such artifacts, or what amount to intentional art-historical documents, and they do so in order to overcome the tension between the monuments' nature as public art and their commemorative function.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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

"STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY"? MONUMENTS AND (ART-)HISTORICAL AWARENESS

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60401 - Arts, Art history

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

History and Theory

ISSN

0018-2656

e-ISSN

1468-2303

Svazek periodika

64

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

338-358

Kód UT WoS článku

001449689900001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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