On Alois Riegl’s the Modern Cult of Monuments

Riegl’s seminal paper is the conceptual ground for much of our present grasp of monuments, museums and issues of restoration. His distinction between ‘intended,’ ‘unintended’ monuments and how it interacts with ‘age-value,’ brackets almost all discussions of these issues that mean to influence pract...

The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review

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