Andrew Shanken is currently the Director of American Studies, Faculty Curator of the Environmental Design Archives, on the Faculty Advisory Committee at the Townsend Center for the Humanities and the Global Urban Humanities at the University of California Berkeley. He has a joint appointment in American Studies. His most recent book is The Everyday Life of Memorials, which explores memorials’ relationship to the pulses of daily life, their meaning within this quotidian context, and their place within the development of modern cities.
Show Notes
Intro: “The Statue Got Me High,” by They Might Be Giants
Discussed:
- “There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument.” – Robert Musil
- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington DC, Maya Lin
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, Washington DC, Frank Gehry
- National World War II Memorial, Washington DC,
- Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin, Peter Eisenman
- Monument vs monumental vs memorial
- The Bastille, Paris
- Mariana Griswold van Rensselaer
- National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New York City, Michael Arad
- New Yorker cover, “Memorial Plaza,” 7-14 July 2014, Adrian Tomine
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
- “Death, Grief and Mourning in Contemporary Britain,” – Geoffrey Gorer, 1965
- Sedlec Ossuary, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic
- “The Hour of Our Death” – Philippe Ariès, 1977
- Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
- Brooklyn Strand, repurposing the Brooklyn War Memorial as a conduit to New York City’s park system
- Hyde Park Corner, London
- Monuments that “switch on” only when they’re blown up or taken down
- “Kickstarter urbanism” and the crowd-funded monument
- Denkmalkritik
- “The Great War and Modern Memory” – Paul Fussell
- The Grove, Los Angeles
- Texas State Capital Grounds, Austin
- Outro: “Monuments for a Dead Century,” by The Boo Radleys
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