Description: This book suggests new aesthetic conceptualizations that challenge the static features traditionally associated with the commemorative function of monuments.
Brief description: Maria Engelskirchen is an art historian and researcher at the Center for Advanced Study »Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change« (KFG 33), funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), at Universität Münster. From 2017-2020, she was a doctoral student in the research project »The Skulptur Projekte Archives in Münster. A Research Institution for Scholarship and the Public«, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Her research interests include art and the public sphere, digitization and reproduction of art with a focus on sculpture, as well as collection studies.