City of epitaphs | Macquarie University ResearchOnline

Home

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/145920

7 Visitors

11 Hits

1 Downloads

File	Description	Size	Format
DS01	Publisher version (open access)	808 KB	Adobe Acrobat PDF	View/Open

Title: City of epitaphs
Related: Culture unbound : journal of current cultural research, Vol. 1, Article 26, (2009), p.453-467
DOI: 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.09126453
Publisher: Linköping University Press
Date: 2009
Author/Creator: Hicks, Megan
Description: The pavement lies like a ledger-stone on a tomb. Buried underneath are the remains of fertile landscapes and the life they once supported. Inscribed on its upper side are epitaphic writings. Whatever their ostensible purpose, memorial plaques and public artworks embedded in the pavement are ultimately expressions of civic bereavement and guilt. The pavement's role as both witness and accomplice to fatality is confirmed by private individuals who publicize their grief with death notices graffitied on the asphalt. To walk the city is to engage in a dialogue about death.
Description: 15 page(s)
Subject Keyword: cities
Subject Keyword: pavement
Subject Keyword: memorials
Subject Keyword: public art
Subject Keyword: shrines
Subject Keyword: graffiti
Subject Keyword: Sydney
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Media, Music, and Cultural Studies

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/145920
Identifier: ISSN:2000-1525
Identifier: mq-rm-2009007059
Language: eng
Rights: Copyright the Author(s) [include year if part of copyright s’ment]. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.
Full Text
Reviewed

Macquarie University ResearchOnline