TOPPLING: the slipperiness of a falling monument
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- dc.contributor.author El-Mecky, Nausikaä
- dc.date.accessioned 2025-11-26T09:56:30Z
- dc.date.available 2025-11-26T09:56:30Z
- dc.date.issued 2025
- dc.date.updated 2025-11-26T09:56:30Z
- dc.description.abstract The topplings of monuments may seem like climactic moments where statues are felled in a dramatic instant. Yet topplings can be far less specific - events that are difficult to define, scattered across time and space. The article focuses on this indefinability of topplings through a wide range of examples from Russia to Iraq. These include unintentional topplings, eternal topplings, and topplings that create more than they destroy. The purpose of this article is to show how, on the one hand, there is a tremendous variety in topplings, and, on the other hand, to propose a way of looking at their commonalities. These commonalities are found in the way topplings unite seemingly contradictory characteristics: topplings are both moments of aliveness and demise; they are the moments when an image is destroyed while sparking new visual experiences; they can be rapid and endlessly drawn out and oscillate between top-down and bottom-up forces. This paradoxical, always transformative, quality may be what makes topplings particularly magnetic.
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- dc.identifier.citation El-Mecky. N. TOPPLING: the slipperiness of a falling monument. In: Stuckey L, Damianisch A (eds.). Uncertain curiosity in artistic research, philosophy, media and cultural studies. Cham: Springer; 2025. p. 157-70. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-91995-4_15
- dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91995-4_15
- dc.identifier.isbn 9783031919947
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/72014
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- dc.publisher SpringerNature
- dc.relation.ispartof Stuckey L, Damianisch A (eds.). Uncertain curiosity in artistic research, philosophy, media and cultural studies. Cham: Springer; 2025. p. 157-70.
- dc.rights Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.
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- dc.subject.keyword Monuments
- dc.subject.keyword Iconoclasm
- dc.subject.keyword Vandalism
- dc.subject.keyword Creative destruction
- dc.subject.keyword Political art
- dc.subject.keyword Decay
- dc.subject.keyword Spectacular violence
- dc.title TOPPLING: the slipperiness of a falling monument
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