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Monument Lab : creative speculations for Philadelphia by Paul M. Farber, Ken Lum is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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What is an appropriate monument for the current city of Philadelphia?That was the question posed by the curators, artists, scholars, and students who comprise the Philadelphia-based public art and history studio Monument Lab . And in 2017, along with Mural Arts Philadelphia, they produced and organized a groundbreaking, city-wide exhibition of temporary, site-specific works that engaged directly with the community. The installations, by a cohort of diverse artists considering issues of identity, appeared in iconic public squares and neighborhood parks with research and learning labs and prototype monuments. Monument Lab is a fabulous compendium of the exhibition and a critical reflection of the proceedings, including contributions from interlocutors and collaborators. The exhibition and this handbook were designed to generate new ways of thinking about monuments and public art as well as to find new, critical perspectives to reflect on the monuments we have inherited and to imagine those we have yet to build. Monument Lab energizes a civic dialogue about place and history as forces for a deeper questioning of what it means to be Philadelphian in a time of renewal and continuing str

Who reads Monument Lab : creative speculations for Philadelphia?

Author

Paul M. Farber, Ken Lum

Publisher

Temple University Press, 2020.

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439916063

Category

history

Subjects

Art, History, Arts

Rating

4.6 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14