Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects

Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects

From Mesolithic to Eco-queer

Houlton, Thomas

Taylor & Francis Ltd

11/2021

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List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: 'Face the Dark Confusion': Experiencing Monuments

Part I. The Monument: Histories and Theories

1 The Monument and the Arts of Memory

2 Theorising the Monument

Part II. The Monument and Psychoanalysis

3 The Monument, the Holocaust, and the Crypt: Rachel Whiteread, Jacques Derrida, and Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok's Cryptonymy

4 D.W. Winnicott and the Destruction of the Monument

5 Countermonuments, Transitional Objects, and the Fear of Breakdown

Part III. Monuments, Colonialism, and Imperial Spaces

6 Monuments and Colonial Domination

7 Cecil Rhodes, Oriel College, and the Will to Change

8 Decolonising Edward Colston in Bristol: The Contrapuntal Monument

Part IV: Queer Monuments

9 LGBTQIA+ Monuments, Sacred Heterotopias, and the Fantasy of Purity

10 Stonewall, Political Visibility, and the Pressures of LGBTQIA+ Memorialisation

11 Paranoid Monuments, Eve Sedgwick, and Queer Remembrance: (Or, You Probably Think This Monument Is About You)

12 The Monument and Queer Ecology

Epilogue: Mesolithic Monuments, ecosystemic collapse, and Hope in the Time of Coronavirus

Index
Colonial Monuments;Monument;Young Man;Cultural;Cecil Rhodes;Culture;Confers;Object;Smooth;Queer;Held;Heritage;Commemorative Work;Politics;Overburden;History;Public Engagement;Psychoanalysis;Above Ground;Autoethnography;Life Forms;Social;Pristine;Sexual;Queer Ecology;Winnicott;Oriel College;Abraham;Christopher Park;Torok;Ingar Dragset;Derrida;Highgate Cemetery;Site;World War Ii Monument;Identity;Cut Flowers;Rememberance;Holding Environment;Intersectionality;Contrapuntal Reading;Houlton;Alois Riegl;Sea Urchins;Creative Dependence;York NY