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(Im)permanence : cultures in/out of time

Author: Judith Schachter Modell; Stephen Brockmann
Publisher: Pittsburgh, PA : Center for the Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon University ; [University Park, Pa.] : Distributed by the Penn State University Press, ©2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : State or province government publication : English
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"[This work] explores the interplay between permanence and impermanence in cultural and artistic practices in the West and elsewhere ... [and] addresses particularly crucial artists, including Robert Smithson and Andy Goldsworthy, as well as a wide variety of historical epochs and cultures, from the destroyed Buddhas at Bamiyan through attempts at preservation and commemoration in the wake of historical catastrophes  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Congresses
Material Type: Conference publication, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Judith Schachter Modell; Stephen Brockmann
ISBN: 0979766400 9780979766404
OCLC Number: 190778091
Notes: Statement of responsibility from jacket.
Proceedings of the conference "(Im)permanence: cultures in/out of time" sponsored by the Carnegie Mellon's Center for the Arts in Society in October 2005.
Description: 284 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Contents: How art lasts : curating, archiving, and performing --
Making memories, imagining identity --
Technological interventions --
Transforming the "permanent" --
Cultural monuments. Contributions: Curating ephemera : responsibility and reality / Jan Schall --
It's only temporary / Margaret Hadstrom, Anna Perricci --
The island of impermanence / Andrew Todd --
Constant change, constant identity : music's ontology / Howard S. Meltzer --
Collaborating with entropy : Robert Smithson's Enantiomorphic chambers and the exhibition of absence / Clark Lunberry --
A disappearing Montmartre : anchoring the memory of a neighborhood in interwar Paris / Alexander Vari --
Ephemeral art : mourning and loss / Mary O'Neill --
Erosions of mourning : Daniel Libeskind's Memorial architecture / Daniel Listoe --
The first Killing Fields Memorial : mythmaking as memorial project / Tienfong Ho --
Victors, victims, and western memories : monuments at Little Bighorn / Erika Doss --
Strike and protest : considering images of Pittsburgh 1877 and Seattle 1999 / Erica DiBenedetto --
Authenticity, change and loss in the conservation of time-based media installations / Pip Laurenson --
Andy Goldsworthy's art as a cultural measure / Lenore Metrick --
It happened again, but as something else : the haunting presence of the past in cross-cultural representation / Margaret Lindauer --
Purity and pollution : from Pilgrimage Center to World Heritage Park / Xiaofei Kang, Donald S. Sutton --
Sacred, secular, or sacrilegious? : prehistoric sites, pagans and the Sacred Sites Project in Britain / Jenny Blain, Robert J. Wallis --
Re-use and re-interpretation of pagan sites in Anglo-Saxon England / Libby Karlinger Escobedo --
Indian time at Foxwoods / Bill Anthes --
Beyond the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas / Lowry Burgess --
Permanent or impermanent? : a sanctuary for the Apulian secular olive trees / Franco Sciannameo --
Times taken, given by contemporary art / Terry Smith --
Contributors and acknowledgments.
Other Titles: Impermanence
Cultures in/out of time
Responsibility: [edited by Judith Schachter & Stephen Brockmann].

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Explores the interplay between permanence and impermanence in cultural and artistic practices in the West and elsewhere. This volume addresses crucial artists, including Robert Smithson and Andy  Read more...

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