The Monumental is an interdisciplinary collection of original, cutting-edge contributions by international researchers pursuing the epistemology and ontology of monuments over time and geography.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of figuresList of contributorsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Towards an ontology and epistemology of the monumental
ARGYRO LOUKAKI
PART IThe Mediterranean as source of monumentality and sublimity from prehistory to the present
1 The monumentalization of Mycenaean architecture after 1200 BCE
MANOLIS MIKRAKIS
2 Monumentality as a form of societal expression: The case of Naxiwn Polis in the Archaic period
ALEXANDRA S. SFYROERA
3 Shaping the ancient urban landscape: Monumentality in the cities of Roman Greece
VASILIS EVANGELIDIS
4 Hagia Sophia, monumentality, and the world stage
ROBERT G. OUSTERHOUT
5 The perception of monuments in Late Byzantium and beyond: Representations of donors holding a church model
DIONYSIOS MOURELATOS
6 The other monument: From monumentality to mnemonicality
KONSTANTINOS I. SOUEREF
PART IIModern and ultramodern dialogues with Classical monumentality: Exaltations, antagonisms, disputes, retractions
7 Political monuments as references to the idealized ancient landscape
KONSTANTINOS MORAITIS
8 Building modern sacred geographies: The subtle monumental of Dimitris Pikionis
ARGYRO LOUKAKI
9 Monumentalizing historical time: Body, nation, and utopia in 20th-century Greece
DIMITRIS PLANTZOS
PART IIIThe Eastern and Western monumental from antiquity to the present
10 The East-West divide, the Eastern monumental and Greek classicism: The case of China and India
ARGYRO LOUKAKI
11 On the monumental MANOLIS KORRES
12 Architecture of magnificence: Monumental tendencies in mid-18th-century architectural discourse
FELIX MARTIN
13 A particular kind of monumentality in the work of Mark Rothko
KALLIOPI KOUNDOURI
14 Postwar social housing: the (anti)monumentality of Georges Candilis
KORINNA ZINOVIA WEBER
15 Monumentality, skyscrapers, and being human
GORDANA KOROLIJA FONTANA-GIUSTI
PART IV
Bridging the European center with the Mediterranean periphery: 19th-21st-century artistic and architectural links
16 Monumentality, poetry, and memory: Eugè ne Delacroix's The Death of Sardanapalus and Yannoulis Halepas's Sleeping LadyMELITA EMMANOUIL
17 Monumentality and the Great National Donors in Greek cityscapes: Phantasmagoria in the midst of crises
LILA LEONTIDOU
Concluding thoughtsARGYRO LOUKAKI
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