5/12/2023 0 Comments Erin thompson smashing statues![]() ![]() Thompson is an associate professor of art crime at John Jay College, City University of New York. Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments (Norton, 2022) aims to create a toolkit to interrogate how Americans represent what they have built and what they need to rebuild in the American public landscape – and the nation as a whole.Įrin L. Thompson demonstrates the complex ways in which these statutes were suggested, contested, funded, physically created, and used symbolically by future groups. Using a set of remarkable case studies, Dr. Thompson suggests that we need to interrogate both the creation and removal of monuments to understand the essential role they play in creating national narratives and determining who is seen as an American. In the United States, the national debate over public monuments often frames the removal of statutes as a revision of history. ![]()
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