The Monumental
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This collection addresses the urgent need for relevant research. It breaks new ground by posing fresh questions on the ontology, temporality, purpose, politics, scale, place, contestations and aesthetics of and around the monumental, from prehistoric time to the present, as well as in both Eastern and Western geographies. Monuments are explored as bearers of the urban majestic, extraordinary and sublime. The Monumental poses questions about changing perceptions, the evocative power of representation, identity construction, ideology and symbolism, the vital necessity for a communicative and active public space around monuments, imitation processes across geographical space-time, as well as the powers that construct, deconstruct or identify the monumental but also the anti-monumental as such. Geographies of reference are the European space, the United States and Asia. Wide-ranging theorizations alternate with in-depth analyses of paradigmatic cases. Conventional as well as alternative forms of the monumental in the present shifting world are also pursued.
The Monumental is of great value and interest to scholars, students and professionals in the fields of architectural theory, history and design, archaeology, art theory and history, Byzantine studies, restoration, urban design and planning, human, urban and cultural geography, cultural studies, social anthropology, Asian studies, as well as those in wider subdisciplines.
Argyro Loukaki is Professor Emerita at the Hellenic Open University (HOU). D.Phil. Oxford University, M.Sc. Architect-Engineer NTUA, M.A. Sussex University, M.Sc. Panteion University. Doctoral/postdoctoral fellowships and prizes: Greek State Scholarship Foundation, universities of Oxford, Princeton, Aristotle of Thessaloniki, Crete, NTUA. Loukaki created the Master’s Program “Art-Cultural Heritage-Development Policies” and launched bi-annual international conferences on art and/in space held at the Acropolis Museum. Earlier, she accomplished urban planning, architectural design and monuments’ preservation projects as a functionary of the Greek state, including archaeological landscaping and restoration, and was Planning Advisor to the City of Piraeus. Author of eleven books plus many articles and monographs in English and Greek on art, architecture and space, cultural heritage, restoration and its aesthetics, Mediterranean cultural geography and the geographical unconscious, tourism, landscape, and the spatialities of Classical Greek tragedy. The Monumental is the fourth by Routledge. Previous books by Routledge include: Living Ruins, Value Conflicts; The Geographical Unconscious; Urban Art and the City. Creating, Destroying, and Reclaiming the Sublime.
List of contributors
List of figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Towards an ontology and epistemology of the monumental
ARGYRO LOUKAKI
PART 1
The 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 OUSTERHOUT
5 The perception of monuments in Late Byzantium and beyond. Representations of donors holding a church model
DIONYSIS MOURELATOS
6 The Other Monument: From monumentality to mnemonicality
KONSTANTINOS SOUEREF
PART 2
Modern 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 3
The 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 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 4
Bridging the European center with the Mediterranean periphery: 19th – 21st century artistic and architectural links
16 Monumentality, poetry, and memory: Eugène Delacroix’s The Death of Sardanapalus and Yannoulis Halepas’s Sleeping Lady
MELITA EMMANOUIL
17 Monumentality and the Great National Donors in Greek cityscapes: phantasmagoria in the midst of crises
LILA LEONTIDOU
Concluding thoughts
ARGYRO LOUKAKI
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.7.2025 |
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Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City |
Zusatzinfo | 1 Line drawings, black and white; 56 Halftones, black and white; 57 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-032-85749-8 / 1032857498 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-85749-7 / 9781032857497 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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