"STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY"? MONUMENTS AND (ART-)HISTORICAL AWARENESS

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dc.contributor.authorBulvas Stejskal, Jakubcs
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-06T12:00:00Z
dc.date.available2025-08-06T12:00:00Z
dc.description.abstractCan past agents deliberately influence our historical awareness by designing objects' appearances and sending them to us down the stream of time? We know they have certainly tried to do so by raising monuments. But according to an influential narrative, the efforts of the "monumentalists" are destined to fail: no monument can keep a legacy alive in perpetuity. In this article, I argue that this narrative misrepresents the nature of the monumentalists' mission, and I set out to show that monumentality should be understood as a means of addressing what I term "art-historical awareness." This mode of historical awareness attends to artifacts' appearances in search of visual manifestations of relevance that can survive the loss of context. Those who raise monuments aim to produce such artifacts, or what amount to intentional art-historical documents, and they do so in order to overcome the tension between the monuments' nature as public art and their commemorative function. By visually manifesting a transcendent relevance, monuments ideally appeal to both present and distant audiences, insofar as these audiences are able to appreciate the monuments' potential to sustain at least a semblance of relevance beyond their immediate contexts.en
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dc.identifier.citationHistory and Theory. p. XXX-XXX.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/hith.12382cs
dc.identifier.issn0018-2656cs
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0003-3202-8553cs
dc.identifier.other197842cs
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11012/255398
dc.language.isoencs
dc.publisherWILEYcs
dc.relation.ispartofHistory and Theorycs
dc.relation.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hith.12382cs
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalcs
dc.rights.accessopenAccesscs
dc.rights.sherpahttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0018-2656/cs
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/cs
dc.subjectart historyen
dc.subjecthistorical awarenessen
dc.subjectKarl Friedrich Schinkelen
dc.subjectmonumentalityen
dc.subjectmonumentsen
dc.subjectneoclassicismen
dc.title"STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY"? MONUMENTS AND (ART-)HISTORICAL AWARENESSen
dc.type.driverarticleen
dc.type.statusPeer-revieweden
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen
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sync.item.insts2025.08.06 13:59:58en
sync.item.modts2025.08.06 13:33:53en
thesis.grantorVysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta výtvarných umění. Katedra teorií a dějin uměnícs
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