Exploring monuments: BA History of Art taster lecture

Monuments are entrusted with recording history, of preserving events and individuals from oblivion. Yet sometimes the stories they tell strike viewers as one-sided, even false. Professor Christine Stevenson’s lecture is about two ‘counter’ monuments. One was made to replace a contentious monument, and to show its untruthfulness; the other sits beside a contentious monument, in an attempt to do the same.

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