Counter-monuments: The antimonumental and the dialogic

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-4-2018

Abstract

In recent decades, counter-monuments have emerged as a new, critical mode of commemorative practice. Even as such practice defines itself by its opposition to traditional monumentality, it has helped to reinvigorate public and professional interest in commemorative activities and landscapes and has developed its own, new conventions. Terminology and analysis in scholarship on counter-monuments have remained relatively imprecise with writers in English and German employing the term ‘counter-monument’ or Gegendenkmal in different and sometimes confusing ways. In this paper we draw together literature published in English and German to clarify and to map various conceptions and categorisations. To do so we distinguish between two kinds of projects that have been called countermonuments: those that adopt anti-monumental strategies, counter to traditional monument principles, and those that are designed to counter a specific existing monument and the values it represents.

Identifier

85050385758 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Journal of Architecture

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2018.1495914

e-ISSN

14664410

ISSN

13602365

First Page

718

Last Page

739

Issue

5

Volume

23

Grant

FT0992254

Fund Ref

Australian Research Council

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