Tag: new monumentality

Teasing Identity: Narratives of the Communist Bloc

Issue: 2014, Volume 48, No. 1 - 2

IDENTITY PREDICAMENTS – IN GENERAL AND IN THE FORMER COMMUNIST BLOC Identity is a matter of both reflection and representation.In the first circumstance, it is assumed to draw an accurate, trustworthy portrait, while in the second it is called upon to create a meaningful, powerful image. But what kind of portrait? Should it follow the […]

Towards a New Monumentality: The Creation of an Urban Cultural Landscape

Issue: 2016, Volume 50, No. 1 - 2

The Lisbon headquarters and park of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (FCG), located in the Parque de Santa Gertrudes, created the public image of the Gulbenkian Foundation: an expression of culture that became synonymous in Portugal with social progress and thus a sign of a new monumentality. This aspiration was defined at the outset by its […]