Monumental Ideas in a Time of Crisis: Revisiting a Framework for Teaching With Monuments

• In Event: Seeing 2020

Abstract

In 1999, the authors developed an analytic framework to promote the study of monuments. The framework introduced three points of analysis: 1) an analysis of referent, 2) an analysis of design, and 3) an analysis of reception. This framework focused on developing a curriculum that supported a critical, interdisciplinary study of monuments. In this paper, the authors reshape and reflect on the previous framework, with continued and renewed attention on the aims of the framework (its strengths and gaps), and the role of social justice, in the wake of current events.

Authors

• Julia T Novakowski, Missouri State University

• Bruce Uhrmacher, University of Denver

• Barri E. Tinkler, Missouri State University