ARTH 2340- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 30 pages long!)
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Word is getting used for other definitions, comparing specific event or person monument compared to generalizing. Most people see these and think of them as monument: war monuments, famous landmarks that are monuments. Statue of champlain commemorates 300th anniversary of champlain"s 2nd journey. Robert e. lee confederate civil war statue. Changes, monuments being taken down; how they change over time in their views from society, we are doing the remembering so our voice has a say in what is and isn"t a monument. Public memory, getting it there, making you remember by making it a monument, teaching you what you are meant to remember. Chooses monumentality over monument as a term because our concept of monument is so constructed to mean war memorials, historical figures, etc. that it blocks us from thinking about other things about what a monument could be. Cultural and social boundaries created from what traditionally is said to be a monument.