The Monumental

Argyro Loukaki (Hellenic Open University, Greece)

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Routledge
14 March 2025

Industrialisation & industrial history; Urban communities; Sociology; Human geography

Series: Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City

The Monumental is an interdisciplinary collection of original, cutting-edge contributions by international researchers pursuing the epistemology and ontology of monuments over time and geography. The contributors are specialists in geography, architectural theory and history, prehistoric, Greek and Roman archaeology, modern art, Byzantine studies, landscape theory, and heritage reception. Against the global climate of flux and uncertainty in the present turbulent world, the durability of monuments as “urban permanences” emerges as one of the few remaining spatial and mental anchorages. As such it is needed, maintained, enhanced, imitated, landscaped, and even invented. In particular, the monumental, a spatial and aesthetic phenomenon of perpetual importance, has recently acquired major new meanings. It now emerges as a key political, spatial, aesthetic, symbolic, architectural, and archaeological manifestation or entity, open to constantly new, even contradictory forms and expressions.

This collection addresses the urgent need for relevant research on the monumental. It breaks new ground by posing fresh questions on the ontology, temporality, purpose, politics, scale, place, contestations, and aesthetics of and around the monumental, from prehistoric time to the present, as well as in both Eastern and Western geographies. Monuments are explored as bearers of the urban majestic, extraordinary and sublime. The Monumental poses questions about changing perceptions, the evocative power of representation, identity construction, ideology and symbolism, the vital necessity for a communicative and active public space around monuments, imitation processes across geographical space-time, as well as the powers that construct, deconstruct, or identify the monumental but also the anti-monumental as such. Geographies of reference are the European space, the United States, and Asia. Wide-ranging theorizations alternate with in-depth analyses of paradigmatic cases. Conventional as well as alternative forms of the monumental in the present shifting world are also pursued.

The Monumental is of great value and interest to scholars, students, and professionals in the fields of architectural theory, history and design, archaeology, art theory and history, Byzantine studies, restoration, urban design and planning, human, urban and cultural geography, cultural studies, social anthropology, Asian studies, as well as those in wider subdisciplines.

Edited by: Argyro Loukaki (Hellenic Open University Greece)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 670g
ISBN: 9781032857497
ISBN 10: 1032857498
Series: Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 14 March 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of contributors List of figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Towards an ontology and epistemology of the monumental ARGYRO LOUKAKI PART 1 The Mediterranean as source of monumentality and sublimity from prehistory to the present 1 The monumentalization of Mycenaean architecture after 1200 BCE MANOLIS MIKRAKIS 2 Monumentality as a form of societal expression: The case of Naxiwn Polis in the Archaic period ALEXANDRA S. SFYROERA 3 Shaping the ancient urban landscape: monumentality in the cities of Roman Greece VASILIS EVANGELIDIS 4 Hagia Sophia, monumentality, and the world stage ROBERT OUSTERHOUT 5 The perception of monuments in Late Byzantium and beyond. Representations of donors holding a church model DIONYSIS MOURELATOS 6 The Other Monument: From monumentality to mnemonicality KONSTANTINOS SOUEREF PART 2 Modern and ultramodern dialogues with Classical monumentality: exaltations, antagonisms, disputes, retractions 7 Political monuments as references to the idealized ancient landscape KONSTANTINOS MORAITIS 8 Building modern sacred geographies: the subtle monumental of Dimitris Pikionis ARGYRO LOUKAKI 9 Monumentalizing historical time. Body, nation, and utopia in 20th century Greece DIMITRIS PLANTZOS PART 3 The Eastern and Western monumental from antiquity to the present 10 The East-West divide, the Eastern monumental and Greek classicism: The case of China and India ARGYRO LOUKAKI 11 On the monumental MANOLIS KORRES 12 Monumental tendencies in mid-18th century architectural discourse FELIX MARTIN 13 A particular kind of monumentality in the work of Mark Rothko KALLIOPI KOUNDOURI 14 Postwar social housing: the (anti)monumentality of Georges Candilis KORINNA ZINOVIA WEBER 15 Monumentality, skyscrapers, and being human GORDANA KOROLIJA FONTANA-GIUSTI PART 4 Bridging the European center with the Mediterranean periphery: 19th – 21st century artistic and architectural links 16 Monumentality, poetry, and memory: Eugène Delacroix’s The Death of Sardanapalus and Yannoulis Halepas’s Sleeping Lady MELITA EMMANOUIL 17 Monumentality and the Great National Donors in Greek cityscapes: phantasmagoria in the midst of crises LILA LEONTIDOU Concluding thoughts ARGYRO LOUKAKI Index

Argyro Loukaki is Professor Emerita at the Hellenic Open University (HOU). She has a DPhil from Oxford University, an MSc in Architectural Engineering from NTUA, an MA from Sussex University, and an MSc from Panteion University. She has obtained doctoral/postdoctoral fellowships and prizes from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation and universities including Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, NTUA, and the universities of Oxford and Princeton. Loukaki created the Master’s Program “Art-Cultural Heritage-Development Policies” and launched bi-annual international conferences on art and/in space held at the Acropolis Museum. Earlier, she accomplished urban planning, architectural design and monuments’ preservation projects as a functionary of the Greek state, including archaeological landscaping and restoration, and was Planning Advisor to the City of Piraeus. She has authored 11 books plus many articles and monographs in English and Greek on art, architecture and space, cultural heritage, restoration and its aesthetics, Mediterranean cultural geography and the geographical unconscious, tourism, landscape, and the spatialities of Classical Greek tragedy. The Monumental is the fourth by Routledge. Previous books by Routledge include: Living Ruins, Value Conflicts; The Geographical Unconscious; Urban Art and the City: Creating, Destroying, and Reclaiming the Sublime.

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The Monumental

Argyro Loukaki (Hellenic Open University, Greece)

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