Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects : From Mesolithic to Eco-queer Paperback / softback
by Thomas (Academic, writer and editor based in York, UK) Houlton
Paperback / softback
Description
Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects explores monuments as political, psychical, social, and mystical objects.
Incorporating autoethnography, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, postcolonialism, and queer ecology, Houlton argues for a radical, interdisciplinary approach to our monument-culture.
Tracing historical developments in monuments alongside contemporary movements such as Rhodes Must Fall and Black Lives Matter, Houlton provides an in-depth critique of monument sites, as well as new critical and conceptual methodologies for thinking across the field.
Alongside analysis of monuments to the Holocaust, colonial figures, and LGBTQIA+ subjects, this book provides new critical engagements with the work of D.W.
Winnicott, Marion Milner, Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, Eve Sedgwick, and others.
Houlton traces the potential for monuments to exert great influence over our sense of self, nation, community, sexuality, and place in the world.
Exploring the psychic and physical spaces these objects occupy—their aesthetics, affects, politics, and powers—this book considers how monuments can challenge our identities, beliefs, and our very notions of remembrance.
The interdisciplinary nature of Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects means that it is ideally placed to intervene across several critical fields, particularly museum and heritage studies.
It will also prove invaluable to those engaged in the study of monuments, psychoanalytic object relations, decolonization, queer ecology, radical death studies, and affect theory.
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:280 pages, 18 Halftones, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/05/2023
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Category:
- Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial,..
- Literary theory
- Library, archive & information management
- Museums & museology
- Humanities
- Archaeology
- Cultural studies
- Gender studies, gender groups
- Sociology
- Social & cultural anthropology
- Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)
- Social, group or collective psychology
- Memory
- Politics & government
- Psychotherapy
- Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides
- ISBN:9781032137506
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:280 pages, 18 Halftones, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/05/2023
-
Category:
- Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial,..
- Literary theory
- Library, archive & information management
- Museums & museology
- Humanities
- Archaeology
- Cultural studies
- Gender studies, gender groups
- Sociology
- Social & cultural anthropology
- Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)
- Social, group or collective psychology
- Memory
- Politics & government
- Psychotherapy
- Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides
- ISBN:9781032137506