Document Type
Response or Comment
Publication Date
Summer 2018
Published In
October
Abstract
“A Questionnaire on Monuments” features 49 responses to questions formulated by Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, David Joselit, and Carrie Lambert-Beatty: “From Charlottesville to Cape Town, there have been struggles over monuments and other markers involving histories of racial conflict. How do these charged situations shed light on the ethics of images in civil society today? Speaking generally or with specific examples in mind, please consider any of the following questions: What histories do these public symbols represent, what histories do they obscure, and what models of memory do they imply? How do they do this work, and how might they do it differently? What social and political forces are in play in their erection or dismantling? Should artists, writers, and art historians seek a new intersection of theory and praxis in the social struggles around such monuments and markers? How might these debates relate to the question of who is authorized to work with particular images and archives?”
Recommended Citation
Maya Nadkarni.
(2018).
"Response To "A Questionnaire On Monuments"".
October.
Issue 165.
134-137.
DOI: 10.1162/octo_a_00327
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-soc-anth/192
Comments
This work was originally published in issue number 165 of October; it is freely available here courtesy of MIT Press.