The risk of loss of visibility and readibility is an integral part of the monumental logic and of its material, aesthetic and historical nature. To grasp the double crisis characterizing our modernity - crisis of the perceptibility of monuments, crisis of monumentality as such - and to surprise the difficulty of self-knowledge that a public memorial architectural work should convey and update in the midst of our cities, we analyze Jenny Holzer's public art intervention on a baroque monument in Rome, the Fontana dell'Acqua Paola, on which she projects the words of the American poet Henri Cole. The luminous words of the poem, what are they talking about? What cultural and historical memory, and what self-knowledge, collective and unique, do ...
In L'homme sans contenu, Giorgio Agamben observes an unprecedented crisis concerning the handing dow...
The publication of the pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennial groups theoretical and visual contributi...
Traversant un ample corpus textuel rédigé en de nombreuses langues, ce travail interroge les rapport...
C'est le paradoxe du monument moderne que ce livre se propose d'explorer. À mesure que l'enjeu de l'...
The twentieth century generated a crisis of public monuments. This paper proposes a reflection on th...
Abstract This essay tackles the issue whether contemporary monuments can still provide plausible sup...
Rather than to be isolated, a monument is related to all the system of its surrounding. And this re...
Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray denounced the double face of the beauty: eternal youth at ...
So far, in public debate, the explanation about Cultural Heritage neglect rests almost exclusively o...
The relation between architectural history and heritage is ambiguous. Both domains are confronted wi...
A monument not only brings forward into the present the values of the subject it is commemorating, b...
In the history of architecture and in the design experience applied to pre-existing buildings, a top...
Giacometti ’s public squares, or « monuments in reverse ». Giacometti’s first project for a monumen...
Based on the commentary of Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau and Koselleck, the author thinks about...
The purpose of this essay is to trace a genealogy of the concept of monument. The path that I have t...
In L'homme sans contenu, Giorgio Agamben observes an unprecedented crisis concerning the handing dow...
The publication of the pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennial groups theoretical and visual contributi...
Traversant un ample corpus textuel rédigé en de nombreuses langues, ce travail interroge les rapport...
C'est le paradoxe du monument moderne que ce livre se propose d'explorer. À mesure que l'enjeu de l'...
The twentieth century generated a crisis of public monuments. This paper proposes a reflection on th...
Abstract This essay tackles the issue whether contemporary monuments can still provide plausible sup...
Rather than to be isolated, a monument is related to all the system of its surrounding. And this re...
Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray denounced the double face of the beauty: eternal youth at ...
So far, in public debate, the explanation about Cultural Heritage neglect rests almost exclusively o...
The relation between architectural history and heritage is ambiguous. Both domains are confronted wi...
A monument not only brings forward into the present the values of the subject it is commemorating, b...
In the history of architecture and in the design experience applied to pre-existing buildings, a top...
Giacometti ’s public squares, or « monuments in reverse ». Giacometti’s first project for a monumen...
Based on the commentary of Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau and Koselleck, the author thinks about...
The purpose of this essay is to trace a genealogy of the concept of monument. The path that I have t...
In L'homme sans contenu, Giorgio Agamben observes an unprecedented crisis concerning the handing dow...
The publication of the pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennial groups theoretical and visual contributi...
Traversant un ample corpus textuel rédigé en de nombreuses langues, ce travail interroge les rapport...