Monument Lab
Title | Monument Lab PDF eBook |
Author | Paul M. Farber |
Publisher | |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9781439916063 |
How to Build a Monument / Paul M. Farber -- Memorializing Philadelphia as a Place of Crisis and Boundless Hope / Ken Lum -- Public Practice / Jane Golden -- Tania Bruguera, Monument to New Immigrants -- Mel Chin, Two Me -- Kara Crombie, Sample Philly -- The Art of the Proposal: Reading the Monument Lab Open Data Set / Laurie Allen.
National Monument Audit
Title | National Monument Audit PDF eBook |
Author | Paul M. Farber |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2021-09-29 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781737887409 |
Monument Wars
Title | Monument Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Kirk Savage |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2011-07-11 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0520271335 |
Traces the history of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., discussing its plan and structures, and considering how the concept of memorials and memorial space has changed since the nineteenth century.
A Wall of Our Own
Title | A Wall of Our Own PDF eBook |
Author | Paul M. Farber |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2020-02-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469655098 |
The Berlin Wall is arguably the most prominent symbol of the Cold War era. Its construction in 1961 and its dismantling in 1989 are broadly understood as pivotal moments in the history of the last century. In A Wall of Our Own, Paul M. Farber traces the Berlin Wall as a site of pilgrimage for American artists, writers, and activists. During the Cold War and in the shadow of the Wall, figures such as Leonard Freed, Angela Davis, Shinkichi Tajiri, and Audre Lorde weighed the possibilities and limits of American democracy. All were sparked by their first encounters with the Wall, incorporated their reflections in books and artworks directed toward the geopolitics of division in the United States, and considered divided Germany as a site of intersection between art and activism over the respective courses of their careers. Departing from the well-known stories of Americans seeking post–World War II Paris for their own self-imposed exile or traveling the open road of the domestic interstate highway system, Farber reveals the divided city of Berlin as another destination for Americans seeking a critical distance. By analyzing the experiences and cultural creations of "American Berliner" artists and activists, Farber offers a new way to view not only the Wall itself but also how the Cold War still structures our thinking about freedom, repression, and artistic resistance on a global scale.
Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves
Title | Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves PDF eBook |
Author | Kirk Savage |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2018-07-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691184526 |
A history of U.S. Civil War monuments that shows how they distort history and perpetuate white supremacy The United States began as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how the history of slavery and its violent end was told in public spaces—specifically in the sculptural monuments that came to dominate streets, parks, and town squares in nineteenth-century America. Looking at monuments built and unbuilt, Kirk Savage shows how the greatest era of monument building in American history took place amid struggles over race, gender, and collective memory. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves probes a host of fascinating questions and remains the only sustained investigation of post-Civil War monument building as a process of national and racial definition. Featuring a new preface by the author that reflects on recent events surrounding the meaning of these monuments, and new photography and illustrations throughout, this new and expanded edition reveals how monuments exposed the myth of a "united" people, and have only become more controversial with the passage of time.
Teachable Monuments
Title | Teachable Monuments PDF eBook |
Author | Sierra Rooney |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2021-03-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1501356933 |
Monuments around the world have become the focus of intense and sustained discussions, activism, vandalism, and removal. Since the convulsive events of 2015 and 2017, during which white supremacists committed violence in the shadow of Confederate symbols, and the 2020 nationwide protests against racism and police brutality, protesters and politicians in the United States have removed Confederate monuments, as well as monuments to historical figures like Christopher Columbus and Dr. J. Marion Sims, questioning their legitimacy as present-day heroes that their place in the public sphere reinforces. The essays included in this anthology offer guidelines and case studies tailored for students and teachers to demonstrate how monuments can be used to deepen civic and historical engagement and social dialogue. Essays analyze specific controversies throughout North America with various outcomes as well as examples of monuments that convey outdated or unwelcome value systems without prompting debate.
What Can and Can't be Said
Title | What Can and Can't be Said PDF eBook |
Author | Dell Upton |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2015-01-01 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0300211759 |
"An original study of monuments to the civil rights movement and African American history that have been erected in the U.S. South over the past three decades, this powerful work explores how commemorative structures have been used to assert the presence of black Americans in contemporary Southern society. The author cogently argues that these public memorials, ranging from the famous to the obscure, have emerged from, and speak directly to, the region's complex racial politics since monument builders have had to contend with widely varied interpretations of the African American past as well as a continuing presence of white supremacist attitudes and monuments."--Book jacket.