Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome

An Alternative Guide to the Eternal City, 1989-2014
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39420-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Spatial Practices

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?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thormod, Kaspar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface by Mieke Bal

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Inventory of Artists

Introduction: International artists in Rome

1 Roman Historiography

2 Foreign Academies and International Artists

3 The Contemporary

4 Close Engagement with Artworks

5 Comments on the Sources

1Institutions: Making the Foreign Academies in Rome

1 Transforming the Locale

2 Institutional Critique

3 Making Institutions

2Sites: Negotiating the Spectacle of Rome

1 Defamiliarisation Strategies

2 Projections

3 Globalised Landscapes

4 Reconfiguring Roman Sites

3People: Portraying the Romans

1 Visitors and Locals

2 Inmates and Partners

3 Double Portrait

4 The Potential of Contemporary Portraiture

4History: Re-envisioning Roman Narratives

1 Material Matters

2 Machines, Gods and Ghosts

3 Touching at a Distance

4 Twisted Narratives

5 Critical Reflections on Historical Narratives

5Art: Creating a Rome of One’s Own

1 Spoliation

2 Copiously Copied

3 Critical Re-stagings

4 New (After)Life

Epilogue: Rome Maps

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kaspar Thormod, Ph.D. (2018), European University Institute, is a scholar and freelance writer. He is the recipient of the Carlsberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Denmark, 2019–2021. He is also the author of a novel, Rom falder (2012).