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Monumentaries: Toward a Theory of the Apergon
Jorge Otero-Pailos
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Let me propose the neologism “monumentaries” to describe the notion that monuments are not just material documents of the past, but also the expression of a contemporary editorial point of view. Monumentaries are historical buildings that have been purposefully altered post facto in order to influence our perception and conception of them. Any careful observer of historic buildings knows that, in order to keep them standing over the centuries, some measure of alteration is always…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2015
Category
Architecture
Subjects
Monuments, Historicity & Historiography, Ruins