Monumental Conflicts:
22. Mai 2025, 18.00 Uhr ONLINE-Übertragung: Kunstuniversität Linz, Domgasse 1, 4.OG, DO0425
Activism and Historical Reckoning on the Confederate Symbolic Landscapes
Gastvortrag mit Evie Terrono, organisiert von Ästhetik und Pragmatik audiovisueller Medien und dem Co Lab Erinnerungsarbeit.
Escalating confrontations on the public monumental landscape in the United States since the early twenty-first century challenged the ideological and material fixity of statues and other commemorative markers, particularly those connected to actors of the Confederacy in the American Civil War. Activists foregrounded the problematic ideological purview of these monuments in the past and in the present. Their protests were the ultimate contestations of the meaning and authority of public monuments in the United States and led to their dismantling as the ultimate resolution of a long-standing trajectory of public opposition to these sites, particularly among African Americans. Professor Terrono will situate these contestations against Confederate monuments at times of political and ideological anxieties and dislocations as reflections of a broader political activism and ongoing negotiations over unresolved historical reckonings and the function and utility of public memory sites in the United States.
Evie Terrono, Professor of Art History at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, earned her undergraduate degree in archeology at the University of Crete, Greece and her PhD in art history at the Graduate School and University Center, CUNY, in New York City. An Americanist art historian, she has expertise on the debates on the public monumental landscape in the United States and the artistic activities in the American South. Her scholarship has been published in Public Art Dialogue (2019), and in Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue & Resolve Controversies (2021). She has forthcoming essays on the Activism on the Confederate Landscape in Richmond, Virginia and on the Art Education for African Americans in Virginia in the 1930s. Her current book project entitled Modernism in the Arts in the Old Dominion 1900-1950, interrogates the promotion of modernism in private and public collections and exhibitions, and midcentury controversies over modernism that conflicted with the persistent cultural traditionalism during this period of dramatic socio-cultural transformation in Virginia.
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