Smashing Statues

The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments

Smashing Statues
Erin L Thompson
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Hardback
h218 x 150mm - 288pg
22 Mar 2022 US
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9780393867671
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An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? And who gets to decide which ones should stay up and which should come down? Erin L. Thompson, the country' s leading expert in the tangled aesthetic, legal, political, and social issues involved in such battles brings much-needed clarity in Smashing Statues. She traces the turbulent history of American monuments and its abundant ironies, starting with the enslaved man who helped make the statue of Freedom atop the US Capitol, and explores the surprising motivations behind such contemporary flashpoints as the toppling of a statue of Columbus at the Minnesota State Capitol. Written with great verve and thoroughly researched, Smashing Statues gives readers the context they need to consider the fundamental question: Whose voices must be heard and whose pain must remain private?
[A] trenchant account. . . Full of intriguing historical tidbits and incisive cultural analysis, this is a worthy study of a complex and controversial issue. -- "Publishers Weekly" Offers a probing examination of the meaning of public monuments. . . A well-informed, often surprising, history of public veneration. -- "Kirkus Reviews"
Erin L. Thompson, who holds a PhD and a JD, is a professor of art crime at the City University of New York. She is the author of Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America' s Public Monuments and Possession: The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present, and her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Smithsonian magazine, and Art in America. She lives in New York.
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ISBN-13: 9780393867671
Published: 22 Mar 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Height: 218mm
Width: 150mm
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 439g
Pages: 288

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