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9/11 Memorials : Contested Memory, Competing Narratives, And Healing., Jennifer A. Fraley
9/11 Memorials : Contested Memory, Competing Narratives, And Healing., Jennifer A. Fraley
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In this dissertation I examine the role that monuments and memorials play in our lives including artistically, historically, and culturally. I begin by examining what monuments and memorials are and how these public works should be their own classification of public art. I argue there are many things these works can be (place of mourning, celebration, historical marker, etc.) and should not be (a single source for a historical accounting); yet, memorials do have the necessary condition of creating a referential relationship between the viewer and the memorialized objects. Without this relationship, the work fails as a memorial. Memorials are …