This new sculptural movement is very interesting to me as we now tend to view monuments and statues as somewhat archaic. Today, one of the main reasons people have for arguing against the dismantling of statues is that it was an important part of history that must not be forgotten. Making radical new monuments to our time now is a refreshing take on this notion that statues are meant to commemorate some important history and turn it on its head by saying "now is a momentous time in history and we must commemorate it for the future generations to know".
While reading some of the monuments pieces I felt as if each of them had something that they needed to prove. For example, for the Tate piece felt the need to expose what history has done to people. Each level exposed how much each person was taken advantage of in service of someone else. For the rumors of war piece exposed the whole idealism of the past resurrecting a past historical leader to make sure that the event does not happen again. The Bracero monument exposed all of the work that the people of that time had done in order to make sure that not another person is taken advantage of again. But truth be told, all of these monuments have come with some sort of backlash. The bracero monument had gotten criticism for stating that the braceros were free to do what they wished. From what the article had stated that was not the truth. It was merely one persons interpretation of what a bracero was, b...
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