Dell Upton, Distinguished Professor of Architectural History, University of California, Los Angeles

Abstract

A monument leads an unhappy life. The best it can hope for is to molder quietly under a mantle of pigeon droppings, for when the people or events it celebrates attract a critical eye, its travails begin. Because a monument holds up its subject to memory, even adulation, it is likely to suffer for the failings of the animate.

Keywords

• 4.1
• confederate monuments
• dell upton
• public art
• slavery