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All Monuments Must Fall: A Syllabus

Monumental Theory - Key Texts

Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Whose culture is it, anyway?” in Cultural heritage issues : the legacy of conquest, colonization, and commerce
Chapter 10, request through OhioLINK
Madeline H. Caviness (2003), “Iconoclasm and Iconophobia: Four Historical Case Studies,” Diogenes 50(3): 99–114
Hugh Gusterson (2017), “Reconsidering How We Honor Those Lost to War,”
Huyssen, Andreas. "Monument and memory in a postmodern age." The Yale Journal of Criticism 6.2 (1993): 249.
The OKL has this in print in the bound periodicals
Jessica Namakkal, “Renaming as Decolonization”
WJT Mitchell “What Do Monuments Want?” and Michael Taussig “Monuments Must Do Better” from “Monuments, Monumentality, Monumentalization”
John Peffer “Censorship and Iconoclasm: Unsettling Monuments” RES 48 (2005): 45-60.
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The invention of the historic monument / Françoise Choay ; translated by Lauren M. O'Connell.
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The emergence of social space : Rimbaud and the Paris Commune / Kristin Ross ; foreword by Terry Eagleton
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Andrew Culp, “A Radical Cartography: Spatializing Power,”
Bhakti Shringarpure, “Swarm, Demolish, Destroy: Rage Against the Monuments from Mali to Martinique," The Funambulist 11 (2017)
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Simon Sheikh, “Planes of immanence, or The form of ideas: Notes on the (anti-)Monuments of Thomas Hirschhorn,” Afterall vol. 9 (2004)
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Social Justice and Museums Resource List
Defacement : public secrecy and the labor of the negative / Michael Taussig
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Sergiusz Michalski, Public Monuments: Art in Political Bondage 1870-1997. London: Reaktion books, 1998.
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Parr, Adrian, Deleuze and memorial culture : desire, singular memory and the politics of trauma (2008)
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Robert S. Nelson and Margaret Olin, Monuments and memory, made and unmade (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004)
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Adrian Parr, “Deleuze and Memorial Culture” (2008)