{"product_id":"the-monuments-end-public-art-and-the-modern-republic-9780691238807","title":"The Monument's End: Public Art and the Modern Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow today's questions surrounding monuments and the ways we commemorate our past first arose in Rembrandt's time\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMonuments occupy a controversial place in nations founded on principles of freedom and self-governance. It is no accident that when we think of monuments, we think of statues modeled on legacies of conquest, domination, and violence. \u003ci\u003eThe Monument's End\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how the artists, architects, poets, and scholars of the early modern Netherlands contended with the profound disconnect between the public monument and the ideals of republican government. Their experiences offer vital lessons about the making, reception, and destruction of monuments in the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the seventeenth century, the newly formed Dutch Republic dominated world trade and colonized vast overseas territories even as it sought to shed the trappings of its imperial past. Marisa Anne Bass describes the frustrated attempts by figures such as Rembrandt van Rijn and playwright and poet Joost van den Vondel to reimagine public memory for their emergent nation. She shows how the most celebrated age of Dutch art was more an age of bronze than of gold, one in which the pursuit of freedom from domination was constantly challenged by the commercial ambitions of empire. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExploring how the artists and intellectuals of this vibrant century asked questions that still resonate today, this beautifully illustrated book discusses works by contemporary artists such as Spencer Finch and Thomas Hirschhorn and offers new perspectives on monuments like the 9\/11 Memorial and Museum and events such as the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarisa Anne Bass\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of the history of art at Yale University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eInsect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e and the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eConchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe\u003c\/i\u003e (all Princeton).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50893854867730,"sku":"9780691238807","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2e913e25-3744-40a2-b38e-97c121bac0ca.jpg?v=1738240160","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-monuments-end-public-art-and-the-modern-republic-9780691238807","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}