{"product_id":"9781526168085","title":"Monumental cares","description":"Author: Mechtild Widrich\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526168085\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Feb 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 264 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonumental cares \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003erethinks monument debates, site specificity and art activism in light of problems that strike us as monumental or overwhelming, such as war, migration and the climate crisis. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book shows how artists address these issues, from Chicago and Berlin to Oslo, Bucharest and Hong Kong, in media ranging from marble and glass to postcards, graffiti and re-enactment. A multidirectional theory of site does justice to specific places but also to how far-away audiences see them. What emerges is a new ethics of care in public art, combined with a passionate engagement with reality harking back to the realist aesthetics of the nineteenth century. Familiar questions can be answered anew: what to do with monuments, particularly when they are the products of terror and require removal, modification or recontextualisation? And can art address the monumental concerns of our present?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920542580894,"sku":"ING-9781526168085","price":194.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526168085.jpg?v=1782823427","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526168085","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}