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Defending And De-Fencing: Approaches For Understanding The Social Functions Of Public Monuments And Memorials, Melanie L. Buffington, Erin E. Waldner
Defending And De-Fencing: Approaches For Understanding The Social Functions Of Public Monuments And Memorials, Melanie L. Buffington, Erin E. Waldner
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
This article explores two possible meanings of de(fence) as related to historical monuments and memorials. By interpreting this term as both defense (defending and idealizing the past) and de-fence (taking down fences and opening narratives about the past), we develop ways to understand potential social functions of monuments. Through the specific examples of the Lee Monument in Richmond, Virginia and Shoes on the Danube Bank in Budapest, Hungary, we describe how the ideas of defense and de-fence function. Further, this article also touches upon temporary interventions to monuments including graffiti and yarn bombing.
The Blackwell Summer Arts Program: An Experience In Community Revitalization, Marjorie Cohee Manifold
The Blackwell Summer Arts Program: An Experience In Community Revitalization, Marjorie Cohee Manifold
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
Like many American cities, Richmond, Virginia is pockmarked by once middle-class neighborhoods that have fallen into decline and are now blighted by decayed and abandoned buildings. Among the more severely depressed areas of Richmond is the historic Blackwell district. Decades ago, in an effort to provide homes for the poorest of Richmond’s citizens, row after row of nondescript, multi-family, brick-faced, public housing units or “projects” were erected in Blackwell. By the end of the 20th century, their boarded windows, crumbling infrastructures, and graffiti covered facades were sad but eloquent monuments to inefficacious governmental policies and the unrelenting poverty and despair …