Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past Bevan Robert
How statues, heritage and the built environment have become the battleground for the culture warsThe past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology…
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How statues, heritage and the built environment have become the battleground for the culture warsThe past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology upon the physical spaces around us. Holocaust deniers use details of the ruins of the gas chambers Auschwitz to promote their lies: 'No Holes; No Holocaust'.Yet long-standing concepts such as 'authenticity'in heritage are undermined and trivialised by gatekeepers such as UNESCO. At the same, time, opposition to this manipulation is being undermined by cultural ideas that prioritise memory and impressions over history and facts.In Monumental Lies, Robert Bevan argues that monuments, architecture and cities are material evidence of history. They are the physical trace of past events, of previous ways of thinking and of politics, economics and values that percolate
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