Pittsburgh, PA : Center for the Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon University ; [University Park, Pa.] : Distributed by the Penn State University Press, c2008
Statement of responsibility from jacket and 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
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Contents:
How art lasts : curating, archiving, and performing -- Making memories, imagining identity -- Technological interventions -- Transforming the "permanent" -- Cultural monuments
Summary:
"[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 like 9/11 and the genocide in Cambodia to the current trend toward globalization in contemporary art."--Publisher's description