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On Monuments and Invisibility

This essay will focus on insights given in relation to the supposed invisibility of monuments erected predominantly in the 20th century. It will include looking into some of the writings made on the subject, mainly critiques of the inconspicuousness of traditional monuments and attitudes advocating their obsoleteness in urban spaces, as well as the strategy of making monuments invisible in order to (paradoxically) improve their visibility and communicative potential or, on the contrary, fulfil the literal sense of the word. More precisely, the presentation is inspired by authors such as Robert Musil and Lewis Mumford and their writings on monuments and draws on examples of monument production mentioned in Szergiusz Michalski’s Public Monuments: Art in Political Bondage 1870- 1997. In addition to being a collection of practices and thoughts on invisibility and monuments, this essay will try to expand on this very concept and offer other significant thoughts and examples of monuments related to that subject.

monument ; invisibility of monuments

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