Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments - Hardcover

Thompson, Erin L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393867676 ISBN 13: 9780393867671

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2022

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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? Which ones should stay up and which should come down? Who should make these decisions, and how?Smashing StatuesSmashing Statues

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Erin L. Thompson is a professor of art crime at the City University of New York and the author of Possession: The Curious History of Private Collectors. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, and Smithsonian Magazine. She lives in New York.

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The real stories behind some of America’s most famed statues:• Mount RushmoreFreedom• Stone Mountain• The first monument honoring historical women in New York City’s Central Park• The North Carolina State Confederate Monument• Christopher Columbus, toppled in Minnesota• The Confederate monument removed from Birmingham, Alabama• The controversial Freedmen’s Memorial in Washington, DC…and more.

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• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393867676
• ISBN 13: 9780393867671
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
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