{"id":5710,"date":"2023-03-29T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novamondo-dev.de\/hias\/?post_type=events&#038;p=5710"},"modified":"2025-01-05T16:17:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T15:17:19","slug":"monumental-mistakes-the-statue-and-its-discontents","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/events\/monumental-mistakes-the-statue-and-its-discontents\/","title":{"rendered":"Monumental Mistakes? The Statue and its Discontents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For those concerned with the history of sculpture Robert Musil\u2019s remark that \u201cThere is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument\u201d has, alas, always rung very true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But suddenly over the past three years, everyone is talking about statues. Except they are not. Instead, they are talking about the subjects these statues represent and the culpability of these historical figures for involvement in the slave trade and other crimes of various colonial pasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in this talk four art historians will focus on an aspect of the current debate about statues that has received much less attention. &nbsp;This is the question about how statues work as representations and the roles played by the conventions and visual rhetoric they employ. How might the terms of the debate shift if more attention was paid to the aesthetics of the statue? Is there an opportunity to think about the aesthetics and politics of the monument together?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/faculty\/malcolm-baker\/\">Malcolm Baker<\/a>, Art Historian, University of California, Riverside<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Frank Fehrenbach, Art Historian, Universit\u00e4t Hamburg<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/fellow\/jeanette-kohl\/\">Jeanette Kohl<\/a>, Art Historian, University of California, Riverside<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Iris Wenderholm, Art Historian, Universit\u00e4t Hamburg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Location<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Universit\u00e4t Hamburg<br>Lecture Hall H, Main Building<br>Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide Pattern-Image-Credits Accordion Accordion--accordionList Accordion--imageCredits has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide Accordion__list is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group Accordion__item has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-space-between is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-cb46ffcb wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading Accordion__title has-xlarge-font-size\">Image Information<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group Accordion__wrapper has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group Accordion__content has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>Edward Colston, Sculpture by John Cassidy, Foto \u00a9 Ben Birchall<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4789,"template":"","event_type":[105],"class_list":["post-5710","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_type-panel-discussion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/5710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=5710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}