Monumental Crisis

Lippens, R (2025) Monumental Crisis. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 39 (3). pp. 1125-1133. ISSN 0952-8059

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Abstract

In this short contribution reflections are offered on a number of monumental works of art which were all emplaced sometime during the last 25 years in post-industrial locations in the UK that are marked by decades of urban decline, i.e. Stoke-on-Trent or North Staffordshire (the location of the 24th Roundtables), Gateshead-Newcastle and the North East of England, and Merseyside in the North West. The works of art, it will be argued, can be seen as slightly hysterical reactions to the trauma of relentless and unrelenting decline, and as expressions of a process of loss and mourning.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Hysteria; Monumental sculpture; Totemic law; Urban decline; Urban regeneration; Totemic law; Urban decline; Urban regeneration; Monumental sculpture; Hysteria; 4803 International and Comparative Law; 4804 Law In Context; 48 Law and Legal Studies; 1801 Law; Criminology; 4803 International and comparative law; 4804 Law in context
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology K Law > K Law (General) N Fine Arts > NB Sculpture
Divisions:	Law and Justice Studies
Publisher:	Springer
Date of acceptance:	25 February 2025
Date of first compliant Open Access:	3 September 2026
Date Deposited:	03 Sep 2026 14:14
Last Modified:	03 Sep 2026 14:14
DOI or ID number:	10.1007/s11196-025-10263-2
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/29317

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