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Toppling statues : papers from the 2020 PSSA webinar co-hosted by the Burlington Magazine / edited by Marjorie Trusted, with Joanna Barnes.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Watford : Public Statues and Sculpture Association, 2021.Description: 160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781838397609
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Contents:
Fallacies in duration / Jean Wilson --- Dialogues with the diabolical dead: Reading statuemania against the grain / James Hall --- Rankly bad and altogether despicable: Looking at Lord Edward Gleichen's Londons Open-Air Statuary (1928) / Roger Bowdler --- The Colston cult and the material culture of Bristol / Helen Paul --- 'A war memorial in every sense': Charles Sargeant Jagger MC (1885-1934) and the memorial to the Royal Regiment of Artillery, London, 1925-2020 / Jonathan Black --- Kings, clerics and candelabra: statue controversy in Ireland / Paula Murphy --- Did statues topple in India? No! / Mary Ann Steggles --- Confederate statues and the complexity of meaning / Edwin Fountain --- Monuments for memory, monuments for identity: the historical and contemporary situation in the Philippines / Ian Morley --- Institutional support for the iconoclasm of 2020 / Alexander Adams --- Toppling power / Sokari Douglas Camp.
Summary: Co-hosted by the PSSA and The Burlington Magazine this free webinar coincided with the Burlingtons annual sculpture issue. The event proved extremely popular with around 450 people registering to attend and over 200 participants on both days. This highlighted the fact that people were keen to debate the concerns surrounding the issue of contested heritage in a constructive forum. The toppling of statues has attracted a great deal of attention and controversy. In this lively and informative webinar many different positions and opinions were voiced. Serious academic debate focused on the sculptures and the artists, the subjects depicted, their historical, social and economic contexts, and the ways in which these sculptures are viewed today. Various proposals were made about ways in which contested heritage could be addressed, for example better, detailed and inclusive labelling on plaques, and easily accessed digital information. Further positive suggestions that could encourage public engagement involved temporary artistic interventions or new sculptures created from a contemporary perspective, commissioned in response to controversial historical statues.

Includes bibliographical references.

Fallacies in duration / Jean Wilson --- Dialogues with the diabolical dead: Reading statuemania against the grain / James Hall --- Rankly bad and altogether despicable: Looking at Lord Edward Gleichen's Londons Open-Air Statuary (1928) / Roger Bowdler --- The Colston cult and the material culture of Bristol / Helen Paul --- 'A war memorial in every sense': Charles Sargeant Jagger MC (1885-1934) and the memorial to the Royal Regiment of Artillery, London, 1925-2020 / Jonathan Black --- Kings, clerics and candelabra: statue controversy in Ireland / Paula Murphy --- Did statues topple in India? No! / Mary Ann Steggles --- Confederate statues and the complexity of meaning / Edwin Fountain --- Monuments for memory, monuments for identity: the historical and contemporary situation in the Philippines / Ian Morley --- Institutional support for the iconoclasm of 2020 / Alexander Adams --- Toppling power / Sokari Douglas Camp.

Co-hosted by the PSSA and The Burlington Magazine this free webinar coincided with the Burlingtons annual sculpture issue. The event proved extremely popular with around 450 people registering to attend and over 200 participants on both days. This highlighted the fact that people were keen to debate the concerns surrounding the issue of contested heritage in a constructive forum. The toppling of statues has attracted a great deal of attention and controversy. In this lively and informative webinar many different positions and opinions were voiced. Serious academic debate focused on the sculptures and the artists, the subjects depicted, their historical, social and economic contexts, and the ways in which these sculptures are viewed today. Various proposals were made about ways in which contested heritage could be addressed, for example better, detailed and inclusive labelling on plaques, and easily accessed digital information. Further positive suggestions that could encourage public engagement involved temporary artistic interventions or new sculptures created from a contemporary perspective, commissioned in response to controversial historical statues.