by Andrew M. Shanken
- Author(s)
- Andrew M. Shanken
- Publication
- New York : Princeton, 2022
- Scope
- 442 Pages, 23.5 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781942130727
Memorials are commonly studied as part of the commemorative infrastructure of modern society. Just as often, they are understood as sites of political contestation, where people battle over the meaning of events. But most of the time, they are neither. Instead, they take their rest as ordinary objects, part of the street furniture of urban life. Most memorials are “turned on” only on special days, such as Memorial Day, or at heated moments, as in August 2017, when the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville was overtaken by a political maelstrom. The rest of the time they are turned off. This book is about the everyday life of memorials. It explores their relationship to the pulses of daily life, their meaning within this quotidian context, and their place within the development of modern cities. Through Andrew Shanken’s close historical readings of memorials, both well-known and obscure, two distinct strands of scholarship are thus brought together: the study of the everyday and memory studies.
- Keywords
- monuments
- Location
- Cabinet 25 - 2: Kunst in de openbare ruimte ; Monumenten
- Remarks
- Includes notes, index, works cited
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