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Recent controversies over monuments question not only who should be represented and commemorated in the public space but also who can decide whether to remove or not the monuments.
Thomas Cauvin
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New Public Monuments: Urban Art and Everyday Aesthetic Experience
The role and function of public art is currently undergoing some large-scale changes. Many new artworks which are situated within the already existing urban sphere, seem to be changing the definition of public art, each in their own way.
Lehtinen Sanna
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Sacral historical monuments are primarily places of prayer, but also objects performing numerous other functions. These are public goods, including cultural goods that build national identity.
Janina Beata Kotlińska +2 more
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Confederate Monuments, Public Memory, and Public History
Dell Upton follows up on the theme of his current book, What Can and Can’t Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South (Yale University Press) by asking a team of individuals critically engaged with public art, memory, and the ...
Dell Upton
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Much of the literature on public space focuses on physical inclusion and exclusion rather than social inclusion or exclusion. In this paper, the implications of this are considered in the context of two monuments, The Volunteers/Les Bénévoles, and The ...
Adamu Patience +2 more
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Identity, Memory, and Monuments: problematics of referentiality [PDF]
Honoring a person or an event, public monuments interrupt geographical landscapes and point to a temporal past asking us to stop, to look, and to engage memory.
Nancy Ciccone
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0266 The Habsburgs and Public Monuments in 19th-Century Croatia
This paper focuses on the analysis of the ways in which the cult of the Habsburg dynasty was promoted through public monuments in Croatia in the so-called Long 19th Century, from the end of the 18th to the early 20th century.
Dragan Damjanović
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Public monument as a constituent of cultural identity of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija [PDF]
The national and cultural identity of a nation is, among other things, established through the monumental heritage of a certain territory. For Serbs living in Kosovo and Metohija, monuments glorifying the glorious Serbian past (Serbian heroes, rulers ...
Elezović Zvezdana M.
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“Little of Artistic Merit?”: The Art of the American South
As Americanists, reckoning with the South might also help us to understand its diverse regional histories and reflect upon broader national contemporary discourses, both from within and without.
Naomi Slipp
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Commemoration of an Epoch: Monuments to the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States
This data-driven analysis unearths monuments that have received little attention, reveals an evolving narrative of the public commemoration of women, and demonstrates how the methods of the digital humanities can enhance the study of art.
Sierra Rooney
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