Show notes
<p>Intro: “The Statue Got Me High,” by They Might Be Giants</p><p>Discussed:</p><ul><li>“There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument.” – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Musil">Robert Musil</a></li><li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Veterans_Memorial">Vietnam Veterans Memorial</a>, Washington DC, Maya Lin</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower_Memorial">Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial</a>, Washington DC, Frank Gehry</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_Memorial">National World War II Memorial</a>, Washington DC, </li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_to_the_Murdered_Jews_of_Europe">Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe</a>, Berlin, Peter Eisenman</li><li>Monument vs monumental vs memorial</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille">The Bastille</a>, Paris</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Griswold_Van_Rensselaer">Mariana Griswold van Rensselaer</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_September_11_Memorial_%26_Museum">National September 11 Memorial & Museum</a>, New York City, Michael Arad </li><li>New Yorker cover, “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/cover-story-adrian-tomines-memorial-plaza">Memorial Plaza</a>,” 7-14 July 2014, Adrian Tomine</li><li><a href="https://www.green-wood.com/about-history/">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn</li><li>“Death, Grief and Mourning in Contemporary Britain,” – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Gorer">Geoffrey Gorer</a>, 1965</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedlec_Ossuary">Sedlec Ossuary</a>, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic</li><li>“<a href="https://archive.org/details/hourofourdeath00aris">The Hour of Our Death</a>” – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Ari%C3%A8s">Philippe Ariès</a>, 1977</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_Lachaise_Cemetery">Père Lachaise Cemetery</a>, Paris</li><li><a href="https://untappedcities.com/2017/10/06/tour-the-brooklyn-strand-community-vision-that-seeks-to-reimagine-nycs-downtown-brooklyn/">Brooklyn Strand</a>, repurposing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_War_Memorial">Brooklyn War Memorial</a> as a conduit to New York City’s park system</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park_Corner">Hyde Park Corner</a>, London</li><li>Monuments that “switch on” only when they’re blown up or taken down<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_and_Holy_Trinity_columns">Marian Columns</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones">Georgia Guidestones</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee_Monument_(Richmond,_Virginia)">Robert E. Lee Monument</a>, Richmond</li><li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/02/devon-henry-confederate-statues-richmond/">White contractors wouldn’t remove Confederate statues. So a Black man did it.</a></li></ul></li><li>“Kickstarter urbanism” and the crowd-funded monument</li><li><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/%C3%96ffentliche_Kunst_als_Denkmalkritik.html?id=K2iDMAEACAAJ">Denkmalkritik</a></li><li>“<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Great_War_and_Modern_Memory/NfVXUgeVJwkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=paul+fussell&printsec=frontcover">The Great War and Modern Memory</a>” – Paul Fussell</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grove_at_Farmers_Market">The Grove</a>, Los Angeles</li><li><a href="https://tspb.texas.gov/prop/tcg/tcg/grounds.html">Texas State Capital Grounds</a>, Austin</li><li>Outro: “Monuments for a Dead Century,” by The Boo Radleys</li></ul>
