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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793429603321

Autore

Thormod Kaspar <1984->

Titolo

Artistic reconfigurations of Rome : an alternative guide to the Eternal City, 1989-2014 / / by Kaspar Thormod ; with a preface by Mieke Bal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill Rodopi, , 2019

ISBN

90-04-39421-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 pages)

Collana

Spatial practices : an interdisciplinary series in cultural history, geography and literature ; ; volume 29

Disciplina

709.04

Soggetti

Art, Modern - 20th century - Themes, motives

Art, Modern - 21st century - Themes, motives

Visitors, Foreign - Psychology

Artists - Psychology

Rome (Italy) In art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: International artists in Rome -- Institutions: Making the Foreign Academies in Rome -- Sites: Negotiating the Spectacle of Rome -- People: Portraying the Romans -- History: Re-envisioning Roman Narratives -- Art: Creating a Rome of One’s Own -- Rome Maps -- Inventory of Artists -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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?