TY - JOUR
T1 - Counter-monuments
T2 - The antimonumental and the dialogic
AU - Stevens, Quentin
AU - Franck, Karen A.
AU - Fazakerley, Ruth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2012 The Journal of Architecture.
PY - 2018/7/4
Y1 - 2018/7/4
N2 - In recent decades, counter-monuments have emerged as a new, critical mode of commemorative practice. Even as such practice defines itself by its opposition to traditional monumentality, it has helped to reinvigorate public and professional interest in commemorative activities and landscapes and has developed its own, new conventions. Terminology and analysis in scholarship on counter-monuments have remained relatively imprecise with writers in English and German employing the term ‘counter-monument’ or Gegendenkmal in different and sometimes confusing ways. In this paper we draw together literature published in English and German to clarify and to map various conceptions and categorisations. To do so we distinguish between two kinds of projects that have been called countermonuments: those that adopt anti-monumental strategies, counter to traditional monument principles, and those that are designed to counter a specific existing monument and the values it represents.
AB - In recent decades, counter-monuments have emerged as a new, critical mode of commemorative practice. Even as such practice defines itself by its opposition to traditional monumentality, it has helped to reinvigorate public and professional interest in commemorative activities and landscapes and has developed its own, new conventions. Terminology and analysis in scholarship on counter-monuments have remained relatively imprecise with writers in English and German employing the term ‘counter-monument’ or Gegendenkmal in different and sometimes confusing ways. In this paper we draw together literature published in English and German to clarify and to map various conceptions and categorisations. To do so we distinguish between two kinds of projects that have been called countermonuments: those that adopt anti-monumental strategies, counter to traditional monument principles, and those that are designed to counter a specific existing monument and the values it represents.
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U2 - 10.1080/13602365.2018.1495914
DO - 10.1080/13602365.2018.1495914
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85050385758
SN - 1360-2365
VL - 23
SP - 718
EP - 739
JO - Journal of Architecture
JF - Journal of Architecture
IS - 5
ER -