Monuments Decolonized
Title | Monuments Decolonized PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Slyomovics |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 401 |
Release | 2024-07-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1503639495 |
"Statuomania" overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century as the French affinity for monuments placed thousands of war memorials across the French colony. But following Algeria's hard-fought independence in 1962, these monuments took on different meaning and some were "repatriated" to France, legally or clandestinely. Today, in both Algeria and France, people are moving and removing, vandalizing and preserving this contested, yet shared monumental heritage. Susan Slyomovics follows the afterlives of French-built war memorials in Algeria and those taken to France. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in both countries and interviews with French and Algerian heritage actors and artists, she analyzes the colonial nostalgia, dissonant heritage, and ongoing decolonization and iconoclasm of these works of art. Monuments emerge here as objects with a soul, offering visual records of the colonized Algerian native, the European settler colonizer, and the contemporary efforts to engage with a dark colonial past. Richly illustrated with more than 100 color images, Monuments Decolonized offers a fresh aesthetic take on the increasingly global move to fell monuments that celebrate settler colonial histories.
Monuments Decolonized
Title | Monuments Decolonized PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Slyomovics |
Publisher | Worlding the Middle East |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-07-23 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9781503639485 |
"Statuomania" overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century as the French affinity for monuments placed thousands of war memorials across the French colony. But following Algeria's hard-fought independence in 1962, these monuments took on different meaning and some were "repatriated" to France, legally or clandestinely. Today, in both Algeria and France, people are moving and removing, vandalizing and preserving this contested, yet shared monumental heritage. Susan Slyomovics follows the afterlives of French-built war memorials in Algeria and those taken to France. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in both countries and interviews with French and Algerian heritage actors and artists, she analyzes the colonial nostalgia, dissonant heritage, and ongoing decolonization and iconoclasm of these works of art. Monuments emerge here as objects with a soul, offering visual records of the colonized Algerian native, the European settler colonizer, and the contemporary efforts to engage with a dark colonial past. Richly illustrated with more than 100 color images, Monuments Decolonized offers a fresh aesthetic take on the increasingly global move to fell monuments that celebrate settler colonial histories.
Decolonizing Museums
Title | Decolonizing Museums PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Lonetree |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | 249 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807837148 |
Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role in determining exhibition content. In Decolonizing Museums, Amy Lonetree examines the co
Decolonizing Heritage
Title | Decolonizing Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Ferdinand De Jong |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 311 |
Release | 2022-03-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1009092413 |
Senegal's cultural heritage sites are in many cases remnants of the French empire. This book examines how an independent nation decolonises its colonial heritage, and how slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire are re-interpreted to imagine a postcolonial future.
Decolonize Museums
Title | Decolonize Museums PDF eBook |
Author | Shimrit Lee |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781771136327 |
Behold the sleazy logic of museums: plunder dressed up as charity, conservation, and care.
Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum
Title | Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum PDF eBook |
Author | Katrin Sieg |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | 327 |
Release | 2021-12-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0472055100 |
How do museums confront the violence of European colonialism, conquest, dispossession, enslavement, and genocide?
Decolonizing Culture
Title | Decolonizing Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Anuradha Vikram |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 153 |
Release | 2017-10-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780998500652 |