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Counter-ceremonial : contemporary artists and Queen Victoria monuments
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Hatt, Michael (2022) Counter-ceremonial : contemporary artists and Queen Victoria monuments. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (33). doi:10.16995/ntn.4732 ISSN 1755-1560.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.16995/ntn.4732
Abstract
As the embodiment of empire, Victoria became a symbol of allegiance and resistance, love and loathing. This is nowhere more apparent than in the many monuments memorializing her across the United Kingdom and around the world. At a moment when public sculpture has become increasingly controversial, as witnessed by the removal of Confederate monuments in the American South or the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ movement, monuments to Victoria are also coming under scrutiny. While many statues have been damaged or defaced from Bristol to Bangkok, and from Montreal to Delhi — important interventions in themselves — more interesting reactions have come from artists. Around the globe, art projects have worked with Victoria monuments in order to find a way of engaging with their troubled history, offering a critical reframing that can break the often unproductive arguments about removal or retention. This article juxtaposes works by Tatsurou Bashi, Sophie Ernst, Hew Locke, Krzysztof Wodiczko and Gary Kirkham, and Hadley+Maxwell, exploring the artists’ engagement with the material form of the monuments and the connections between Victoria’s self-made image and its unmaking in the works discussed.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NB Sculpture |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History of Art | ||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Monuments -- Commonwealth countries , Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 -- Monuments , Figure sculpture , Public sculpture , Art and society , Public art | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century | ||||||
| Publisher: | Open Library of the Humanities | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1755-1560 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 9 February 2022 | ||||||
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| Number: | 33 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.16995/ntn.4732 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 February 2022 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 16 February 2022 |
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