Tag: Iraq War

• The Absence of Monuments

  20 March 2013

  public things

  Firdos Square, Iraq War, public sculpture

  “Historically, the monument–as distinguished from all other things that are present–was supposed to endure for all time.”¹ The monument, here used in relation to public sculpture, is a particular kind of thing. By virtue of its placement in an open, accessible location, it reaches a wide audience and because of this reach is often understood…