Description
A response to urgent concerns about public monuments commemorating dictorial histories
In the words of Hannah Arendt, "Half of politics is image-making, the other half is the art of making people believe the image." From South Africa to Charlottesville, heated discussions over statues, their removal and their vandalism frequently make the news. Decoding Dictatorial Statues, a project by Korean graphic design researcher Ted Hyunhak Yoon, is a collection of images and texts exploring the visual rhetoric of statues in public space. How can we decode statues and their languages, their objecthood and materiality, their role as media icons and their voice in political debates?
The book responds to urgent concerns about the representation of our heritage by not only asking us to examine what history gets put on a pedestal, but also to consider the visual rhetoric of the statue itself.Author: Ted Hyunhak Yoon
Publisher: Onomatopee
Published: 06/18/2019
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.70w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9789491677984
ISBN10: 9491677985
BISAC Categories:
- Photography | Individual Photographers | Artists' Books