Performative monuments: The rematerialisation of public art

Argues the conceptual significance of performance, and of a performative model of art, to the revival of the monument in the wake of the Second World War, the Holocaust and the fall of the Eastern bloc.

Author: Mechtild Widrich
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 05/31/2014
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780719095917

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2015 pg. 1302

About the Author

Mechtild Widrich is Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Vienna