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Monuments as cultural and critical objects : from mesolithic to eco-queer / Thomas Houlton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Houlton, Thomas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monuments--Social aspects.
- Monuments.
- Public sculpture.
- Collective memory.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Thomas Houlton is an academic, writer, and editor based in York, UK. Educated at the University of Cambridge and New York University, he gained his PhD from the University of Sussex, where he also worked at the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence. He has had both critical and creative writing published in journals and magazines.
- Contents:
- Introduction: 'Face the dark confusion' : experiencing monuments
- The monument and the arts of memory
- Theorising the monument
- The monument, the Holocaust, and the crypt : Rachel Whiteread, Jacques Derrida, and Nicolas Abraham & Maria Torok's cryptonymy
- D.W. Winnicott and the destruction of the monument
- Countermonuments, transitional objects, and the fear of breakdown
- Monuments and colonial domination
- Cecil Rhodes, Oriel College, and the will to change
- Decolonising Edward Colston in Bristol : the contrapuntal monument
- LGBTQIA monuments, sacred heterotopias, and the fantasy of purity
- Stonewall, political visibility, and the pressures of LGBTQIA memorialisation
- Paranoid Monuments, Eve Sedgwick, and queer remembrance (or, you probably think this monument is about you)
- The monument and queer ecology
- Epilogue: Mesolithic monuments : hope in the time of coronavirus and ecosystemic collapse.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- 9780429197550
- Other Format:
- Print version: Houlton, Thomas. Monuments as cultural and critical objects
- ISBN:
- 9780429197550
- 0429197551
- 9780429590764
- 0429590768
- 9780429586880
- 0429586884
- 9780429588822
- 0429588828
- Publisher Number:
- 40030926861
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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