Add to ORKGThe Christopher Columbus monument on Reforma Avenue in Mexico City stood for over one hundred years. However, since the turn of the twenty-first century, the monument has become the target of countermonumental actions. This research project questions the entanglement between countermonumentality, collective memory, and heritage through the analysis of the materiality at the site of the monument. Themes of feminism, anti-monumentality, public space appropriation, and the use of archaeological artifacts to construct a state-sanctioned history arose via this study
When in 1998 the state of New Mexico celebrated its Cuartocentenario, the 400th anniversary of Spani...
Memorials and the Cult of Apology examines how contemporary memorials have come to embody more than ...
Christopher Columbus, a historically revered European hero to whom the dominant European narrative a...
Recent reactions to colonial-era memorials have contributed to a renewal of interest in memorialisat...
The management of cultural heritage becomes a contested field in which the collective imaginaries pl...
This dissertation explores U.S. monuments as contested sites where marginalized groups who have been...
This thesis centers on select artworks in public intervention, photography and video as an explorati...
On August 16, 2019, protesters arrived at the Monument to Independence in Mexico City. In response t...
Throughout history, monuments have been erected to act as reminders of sites, events and people. In ...
In recent years, countries in the Global North have begun to grapple with the origins of long-standi...
Considerando los monumentos como artefactos culturales inscritos en procesos de construcción de sent...
The commemoration of historical violence by inscription into the American built landscape is selecti...
The public monuments protected the construction of the Liberal State in its mission to model the new...
After finding empirical use of specific public art monuments, as a prominent element in many social ...
In 1927, Austrian intellectual Robert Musil dismissively argued: “The remarkable thing about monumen...
When in 1998 the state of New Mexico celebrated its Cuartocentenario, the 400th anniversary of Spani...
Memorials and the Cult of Apology examines how contemporary memorials have come to embody more than ...
Christopher Columbus, a historically revered European hero to whom the dominant European narrative a...
Recent reactions to colonial-era memorials have contributed to a renewal of interest in memorialisat...
The management of cultural heritage becomes a contested field in which the collective imaginaries pl...
This dissertation explores U.S. monuments as contested sites where marginalized groups who have been...
This thesis centers on select artworks in public intervention, photography and video as an explorati...
On August 16, 2019, protesters arrived at the Monument to Independence in Mexico City. In response t...
Throughout history, monuments have been erected to act as reminders of sites, events and people. In ...
In recent years, countries in the Global North have begun to grapple with the origins of long-standi...
Considerando los monumentos como artefactos culturales inscritos en procesos de construcción de sent...
The commemoration of historical violence by inscription into the American built landscape is selecti...
The public monuments protected the construction of the Liberal State in its mission to model the new...
After finding empirical use of specific public art monuments, as a prominent element in many social ...
In 1927, Austrian intellectual Robert Musil dismissively argued: “The remarkable thing about monumen...
When in 1998 the state of New Mexico celebrated its Cuartocentenario, the 400th anniversary of Spani...
Memorials and the Cult of Apology examines how contemporary memorials have come to embody more than ...
Christopher Columbus, a historically revered European hero to whom the dominant European narrative a...