Tag: Monumentality

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  A Loss of Permanence: Monumentality in the 21st Century

  30 October 2017

  public things, Sculptural Things Blog

  Chicago Public Art, Contemporary, Monumentality, Monuments, Public art, Temporary

  Presenting a paper recently on the monumental sculptural projects of Alexander Calder, David Smith, and Robert Smithson in Italy, as a part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s wonderful symposium The Course of Empires: American-Italian Cultural Relations, 1770-1980, (my presentation and the entire proceedings are viewable here, if you are so inclined), I drew upon two…