Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial Enterprise

by Rebecca Zorach

How art played a central role in the design of America's racial enterprise--and how contemporary artists resist it.

Art has long played a key role in constructing how people understand and imagine America. Starting with contemporary controversies over public monuments in the United States, Rebecca Zorach carefully examines the place of art in the occupation of land and the upholding of White power in the US, arguing that it has been...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226831019
• ISBN13: 9780226831015
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.9"