LIT 6855: Monuments
Monuments could be quite a capacious category of inquiry for us, so
I've set readings that take the term both literally and figuratively
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities Introduction and Chapter
10, Cenus, Map, Museum (xerox).
"Invisible Cities" Alexander Still, from Lingua Franca
(xerox)
"Maya Lin and the 1960s: Monuments, Time Lines and Minimalism"
(xerox)
"Drowning By MicroGallery" in Resisting the Virtual Life
(xerox)
"Windows: of vulnerability" in The Phantom Public Sphere.
Michael Berube, Public Access Part I/II and Epilogue.
An interesting lecture on the subject of architecture
and aesthetics