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- Title
- Fleeting monuments for the Wall of Respect / Romi Crawford, editor.
- Publication
- [Chicago] : The Green Lantern Press, [2021]
- ©2021
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | N6490 .F54 2021 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 302 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm
- Summary
- The Wall of Respect, a work of public art created in 1967 at the corner of Forty-third Street and Langley Avenue on Chicago's South Side, depicted Black leaders in music, art, literature, politics, and sports. The Wall sparked a nationwide mural movement, provided a platform for community engagement, and was a foundational work of the Black Arts Movement. There is no longer any physical indication of its existence, but it still needs to be remembered. Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect argues against making a monument of it, or of other historically significant events, in the formal language of grandness and permanence. Instead, Romi Crawford proposes the concept of "fleeting monuments," asking a range of artists and writers to realize antiheroic, nonstatic, and impermanent strategies for commemoration. The result is a collection of "fleeting monuments" of poetry, photography, essays, artworks, and performance that invites readers to enact the history of the Wall of Respect on their own terms. Through the intimate and portable format of a book, Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect recognizes and pays tribute to the Wall while proposing new strategies for commemoration and public memory that inspire us today as we endeavor to preserve the recent murals, installations, and other forms of public art created to support racial justice.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction: Fleeting monuments and the wall of respect / Romi Crawford -- I: Legacy monuments -- Abdul Alkalimat and the Amus Mor project -- Darryl Cowherd -- K. Kofi Moyo -- Haki Madhubuti -- Robert E. Paige -- Visiting Val Gray Ward -- Part II: Gift monuments -- Miguel Aguilar -- Bethany Collins -- Julio Finn -- Maria Gaspar -- Wills Glasspiegel -- Naeem Mohaiemen -- Kamau Patton -- Rohan Ayinde -- Part III: Reflective monuments -- D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem -- Stephanie Koch -- Stefano Harney and Fred Moten -- Nicole Mitchell Gantt -- Cauleen Smith -- solYchaski -- Norman Teague -- Bernard Williams -- Part IV: Make and do monuments -- Wisdom Baty -- Kelly Lloyd -- Damon Locks -- Mechtild Widrich -- Jefferson Pinder -- Faheem Majeed -- Jan Tichy -- Mark Blanchard -- Theaster Gates -- Romi Crawford -- Lauren Berlant.
- ISBN
- 9780997416596
- 0997416599
- LCCN
- 99989543127
- 40030626682
- OCLC
- on1246519463
- 1246519463
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries