#public monuments

[grokkensgrumblings]

Johnny Somali (Rashid Ramsey) just my opinion.

So, I might be being a boomer here, but honestly... When a guy peed on the Alamo back in 2013-2014 the dude got 18 months and was also fined $4,000 to repair any damage to the Alamo, which was built in the 1750s by Spanish colonists. That was a plea deal and while what he did was truly objectionable, it wasn't as bad as what Rashid did to the Comfort Women statues, (yeah, he targeted more than one.) He's committed more "crimes" (in quotes due to me not know Korean Law) and all deserve punishment. I'm hoping he gets the big book of Korean law chunked at his head by the judges. What I know of Korean law is the first season of Attorney Woo so.. yeah.

But no nation takes the defacing of their monuments lightly, especially by foreigners. Nor should they, and the American government, and the "sigh" incoming assholes need to let this moron hang out to dry.

[seashorepics]

Day 27: The George Robert Stephenson Fountain: A Tribute to Engineering Excellence on The Green, Cowes

Introduction The George Robert Stephenson Fountain, located on The Green in Cowes, Isle of Wight, stands as a lasting tribute to one of Britain’s most significant engineering families. Erected in honor of George Robert Stephenson, a pioneer of railway engineering, the fountain is a blend of Victorian design, engineering history, and local pride. Positioned near the Cowes waterfront, it serves as…

[miamaimania]

Revisiting Claes Oldenburg's Monumental Sculptures: A Pop Art Legacy

[missedmilemarkers]

[germanpostwarmodern]

Richard Serra, Terminal (Pieces for Documenta VI), 1977, weathering steel, Bochum, Kurt-Schumacher-Platz 13. Photo from c. 1981 by Robert Häusser.

[rateducates]

I won't stop sharing this. I simply can't. The American people need to know.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/open-for-business-the-trump-revolution-on-public-lands

[lunarlivs]

i’ve said it once and i’ll say it again: texting fics are my number one bitch. silly little texting fics with minimal plot and way too many groupchats? university au’s? modern references and out of pocket shit? that’s my main girl right there. i’m going to war for her.

[daily-public-domain]

Day 275: Large Stalked Sponge

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–This image is part of the public domain, meaning you can do anything you want with it! (you could even sell it as a shirt, poster or whatever, no need to credit it!)–

[detroitlib]

View of Civil War monument, depicting a Union soldier, located on Belle Isle. Inscription reads: "There are now forty-eight reasons why we will always remember the Grand Army of the Republic. Erected by Department of Michigan Women's Relief Corps Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic. Dedicated November 11, 1948."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[archiveofaffinities]

Yves Klein, Obelisk, Place de la Concorde, Illuminated with blue light, Paris, France, 1983

[benkaden]

Ansichtskarte

MERSEBURG Lenin-Monument am Gotthardteich

Köthen: Heldge-Verlag KG 437 Köthen (P 1/72 IV-14-45 06 08 11 120)

Foto: [Erich] Kühn

1972

[spiritofthemountainnaturephoto]

I'm sick to my stomach thinking over the fact we as the American people could lose our public lands, national parks and monuments. We would lose so many beautiful natural areas, wildlife and history. We could lose places to hike, hunt and fish.

He was putting things in motion before and he will do it again.

"The Trump administration is responsible for the largest reduction in protected public lands in history, a study finds.

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon coined the term “deconstruction of the administrative state,” to describe efforts to take power away from the federal government and allow business a freer hand in development. Nowhere is that policy being carried out more systematically than in the Trump administration’s actions on public lands, where the businesses seeking that freer hand are primarily the oil and gas extraction, logging, and mining industries.

Republicans in Western states hoped would be a new effort to take over control of federal lands, and introduced a bill to sell some 3.3 million public land acres out of federal hands."

https://e360.yale.edu/features/open-for-business-the-trump-revolution-on-public-lands

Please share so that more people can be aware for what is to come. We need to keep an eye on the Trump administration so that we don't lose our American right to hike, hunt and fish on OUR public lands!

[rabbitcruiser]

Bruno Schmitz was born in Düsseldorf on November 21, 1858.

[kittkattys]

Lady Noire and Hesperia: we need to be careful, the Supreme cannot know about the Resistance.

Red Beetle when he is left alone for 5 minutes:

[dougielombax]

A few days late.

BUT!

Mickey Mouse has been DEAD (by which I mean his original incarnation (Steamboat Willie) entered the public domain) for ONE WHOLE SLUTTY YEAR!!!!

Getting fucked up with Mr Gatsby! Absolutely wasted!

In my mind….

[his5067forjvg]

Stolen History

Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit discusses the Cyrus E. Dallin statue, The Massasoit, and its many descendent works. The book is an exercise in contextual understanding of monuments both their original intention at the time in which they were created as well as their more contemporary shifting understanding as the narrative surrounding their context gets its own memory. This book is also apart of a larger conversation that has been ongoing about the sections of celebratory histories associated with monuments. The authors, Lisa Blee and Jean M. O’Brien, discus monuments as a method of preservation of the historical narrative. With the creation of The Massasoit the Improved Order of Red Men wanted to “freeze” Ousamequin’s (the historical figure on which the statue is based) legacy by having a tangible reminder of his role in the settlement of Plymouth. However, as time marched on the portrayal of Native Americans that The Massasoit, participates in of helpful, stoic, peace pipe-caring peoples evolved. 

Natives themselves became more involved with cultural/social memory of early America. The Improved Order of Red Men is a fraternal organization of white men. This group that fundraised for the statue stands in stark contrast to the groups of actual Native Americans that gather on Thanksgiving to commemorate the National Day of Mourning. Since 1970s, Natives have begun to loudly reframe the narrative associated with The Massasoit, that of a beginning to America. They rebuke this as merely the beginnings of white America. The United American Indians of New England (UAINE) used the statue to close the distance between the past and the present, in order to question the larger historical narrative pushed by social memory. Standing next to a native body created and idealized by a white man for a white cause, the UAINE makes passers-by question not only their perception of history but who and why they were taught that version.

Here is a video about the National Day of Mourning. It features commentary on mythologizing the American Historical Narrative, images of Dallin's statue, and footage from the 2016 protest.