Date: 13 March 2019 (Wednesday)<\/strong> From the toppling of a statue of King George III in New York in 1776 to the recent removal (or relocation) of statues and monuments that pay homage to the Confederacy, the United States has had a long history of \u201creckoning\u201d with memorials, monuments, and other forms of public art that citizens deem oppressive, shameful, hateful, or simply \u201cout of sync\u201d with current values and ideals.\u00a0 This lecture traces how, why, and when Americans target public art, and the dilemmas of dissent and historical accountability in public culture.<\/p>\n Speaker: Peter J. Cobb<\/strong><\/p>\n Erika Doss teaches in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her books include Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism<\/em> (1991), Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities<\/em> (1995), Looking at Life Magazine<\/em> (editor, 2001), Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in American<\/em> (2010), and American Art of the 20th-21st Centuries<\/em> (2017). The receipt of several Fulbright awards, Doss has also held fellowships at the Standford Humanities Centre, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Centre, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nTime: 4:30pm<\/strong>
\nVenue: Room 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus<\/strong><\/p>\n