TY - BOOK ID - 135618964 TI - Artistic reconfigurations of Rome AU - Thormod, Kaspar AU - Bal, Mieke PY - 2019 SN - 9004394214 9789004394216 9789004394209 9004394206 PB - Leiden Boston DB - UniCat KW - Art, Modern KW - Visitors, Foreign KW - Artists KW - Themes, motives. KW - Psychology. KW - Rome (Italy) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135618964 AB - In Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome Kaspar Thormod examines how visions of Rome manifest themselves in artworks produced by international artists who have stayed at the city’s foreign academies. Structured as an alternative guide to Rome, the book represents an interdisciplinary approach to creating a dynamic visual history that brings into view facets of the city’s diverse contemporary character. Thormod demonstrates that when artists successfully reconfigure Rome they provide us with visions that, being anchored in a present, undermine the connotations of permanence and immovability that cling to the ‘Eternal City’ epithet. Looking at the work of these artists, the reader is invited to engage critically with the question: what is Rome today? – or perhaps better: what can Rome be? ER -