Artistic reconfigurations of Rome an alternative guide to the Eternal City, 1989-2014 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator: Thormod, Kaspar, 1984- (Author)
Other Authors / Creators:Bal, Mieke, 1946- writer of preface.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Imprint: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, 2019.
Series:Spatial practices : an interdisciplinary series in cultural history, geography and literature ; volume 29
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Online Access:Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete.
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Summary:In Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome Kaspar Thormod examines how visions of Rome manifest themselves in artworks produced by international artists who have stayed at the city's foreign academies. Structured as an alternative guide to Rome, the book represents an interdisciplinary approach to creating a dynamic visual history that brings into view facets of the city's diverse contemporary character. Thormod demonstrates that when artists successfully reconfigure Rome they provide us with visions that, being anchored in a present, undermine the connotations of permanence and immovability that cling to the 'Eternal City' epithet. Looking at the work of these artists, the reader is invited to engage critically with the question: what is Rome today? - or perhaps better: what can Rome be?
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004394216 (online)