Monuments and Collective Memory
I’ve long appreciated the First World War memorials to which the Czechs have added the names of Second World War dead, victims of fascism and communism, and in one case, the dead from UN service. Makes good use of existing monuments. The Soldiers and Sailors Monument in front of the old Kane County Courthouse in …
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Like the three-quarter-size Statues-of-Liberty that the Boy Scouts unveiled in the 1950s, and many of the Joseph II statues unveiled across the Bohemian Lands and Lower Austria in the 1880s, sculptor Ernest Moore Viquesney’s First World War statues, “The Spirit of the American Doughboy,” that dot the American landscape are production-line products. The sculptor carefully …
The Musée des Arts et Métiers is one of my favorite museums in Paris. And, I like lots of museums in Paris. Its collections include models of classic French cars and a recreation of French chemist Antoine Lavoisier’s laboratory. There are also models showing different phases of construction of French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s “Liberty …
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Of Monuments and Memory