Memorials Now

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Cher Krause Knight is Professor of Art History at Emerson College. She currently serves on the Boston Public Art Triennial Advisory Group and was previously the Memorial Advisor for One Boston Resilience (Boston Art Commission, Mayor's Office of Arts + Culture), as well as a Public Art Scholar for the City of Boston and the nonprofit Embrace Boston. Along with Harriet F. Senie, she is co-editor of Museums and Public Art? (Wiley Blackwell, 2016) and A Companion to Public Art (Wiley Blackwell, 2008). Harriet F. Senie is Professor Emerita of Art History at City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She served on the New York City#s Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers, as well as the She Built New York advisory committee and Mexico City's Monument to Absence selection committee. Along with Cher Krause Knight, she is the founding co-editor of the journal Public Art Dialogue and co-founder of its international professional organization.

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"With the increased prominence of protests organized by public groups like Black Lives Matter, recent years have seen a shift in public opinion on memorials and monuments which represent figures with ties to slavery, oppression, and imperialism. While this led to some of the most widespread recent popular interest in the role of public art, it is only the latest event in an evolving era in art history which finds artists and historians working to respond to changing public opinion and expectations about who is memorialized in the public space and why. In Memorials Now, well-known authorities in public art Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F Senie consider a selection of notable recent case studies which exemplify changing beliefs about the values and roles of memorials. With a particular interest in the ways that artists have moved to memorialize and honour people who have traditionally been underrepresented and oppressed, this text explores exciting public memorials such as the memorial to an enslaved man in 1763 Monument in Georgetown, Guyana; the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt; and the recent work by Steve Locke, Three Deliberate Grays for Freddie (A Memorial for Freddie Gray). Though the text is largely concerned with the ways in which this movement is playing out in the United States, the text also draws in examples from around the world, thus demonstrating the many ways that artists have responded to the particular situations of their communities to memorialize the most vulnerable community members. This text promises to become an essential work in the current study of memorials, monuments, and public art. This is a thriving area of study in art history -- particularly for its interconnection with politics, sociology, visual anthropology, and culture studies -- but is also of timely relevance in courses on public planning, urban development, and architecture. As the latest work by two highly respected scholars in this area, there is sure to be much interest in this book both for its value in the classroom and its contribution to scholarship"--