How Should We Deal with the Past When Visual Artworks are Becoming Monuments?

Thanks to our profoundly unsettled political mood, recently there has been great deal of discussion about monuments. When, as was often the case in the United States, a public sculpture celebrated a Confederate Civil War general, or some other figure (Christopher Columbus, for example) who has become politically controversial, then that work is likely to More

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