Monumental cares, Sites of history and contemporary art - Mechtild Widrich (Manchester University Press) MIT Press Vincenzo de Bellis

Vincenzo de Bellis

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The aesthetics of these sculptures are largely incorporated into our daily lives

Monumental cares, Sites of history and contemporary art - Mechtild Widrich (Manchester University Press) MIT Press Vincenzo de BellisMonumental cares rethinks 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. The 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