https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Kara-Walker-s-Fons-Americanus-at-Tate-Modern https://booksandideas.net/Kara-Walker-s-Fons-Americanus-at-Tate-Modern 2019-10-10T07:00:00Z text/html en Vanina Géré Arts slavery history African American art history monument visual arts Books and ideas originals sculpture memorial <p>Visual artist Kara Walker's <i>Fons Americanus</i> is this year's commissioned work for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. While addressing the current debates regarding memorials, it goes beyond a mere rewriting or righting of history.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Notre-Dame-Heritage-Emotions https://booksandideas.net/Notre-Dame-Heritage-Emotions 2019-05-02T06:00:00Z text/html en Nicolas Delalande Society Arts Paris sociology heritage art history Text Interviews value monument Notre-Dame emotion fire <p>Flames, disbelief, dread. A cathedral burns and tears flow. But why does our architectural heritage and its disappearance move us so greatly? The sociologist Nathalie Heinich offers some answers.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Celebrating-Scottish-Heroes https://booksandideas.net/Celebrating-Scottish-Heroes 2017-10-16T07:00:00Z text/html en Clarisse Godard Desmarest Society History nationalism hero monument <p>The 19<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century in Scotland saw the emergence of an architectural trend of building monuments dedicated to the celebration of cultural heroes. In his latest book, Johnny Rodger examines the political significance of the hero building in the relationships between the people, the nation and the state.</p>