ROMI.-Livre Rare Book
Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect
2021réf. 207406Chicago IL: The Green Lantern Press 2021. Paperback. VG Light edgewear to wraps. Black illustrated glued wraps with red white and black lettering; 302 pages; illustrations. 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. -- WorldCat. The Green Lantern Press paperback books
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