That same day Black Lives Matter supporters returned to central London looking to fight the counter-protestors. I’m with Carolyn. Ridding the world of misbelief and misbelievers motivated the ritually purified elite. The Churchill statue in Parliament square was boarded up, as was the statue of Sir Robert Peel in Tamworth. Growing up in DC I always loved how the Vietnam Memorial had enough of an open-ended structure that it invited the viewer to participate with the monument through their own reflection, recognition of names, space for a memento to be placed in companionship. My hope is that those concerned individuals may use this to contact their local representatives and prevent further destruction. Let's start with a bit of art history. Consider the case of Blairquhan Castle. Some were renamed. Old Customs, Old Habits, Old Culture, and Old Ideas were to be destroyed. Some sculptures are really important to me. There’s a section on the LDS Christus that is an important read–I initially made exactly the same argument about the light marble, but I changed my mind after reading the book. Wherever Islam expanded its tentacles, the cultural and religious iconography of the society was its first target. Could you give us a sense of how hard these statues were to make, what it meant to make them, and whether it was hard to tear them down? But if they’re more abstracted (like the Statue of Liberty), or originally created for private viewing and moved to a museum later, or purely artistic works depicting a nonspecific person (like certain pieces of unnamed dancers), then my objections to the art form rapidly diminish. And when I see sculptures of great historical figures, I always see them as monuments to their virtues – virtues that are worthy of emulation – and never a call to also embrace their weaknesses. I live in a city with a very large Jewish population, and know Jewish men whose features are not at all dissimilar to the one portrayed on the Christus statue. You mean THE coach. Some of the prominent churches which were destroyed are: Church of St. Mary in Ukraine, Old Trinity Cathedral, Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Moscow etc. This is complex issue. Give me photo essays where the snapshots combine to tell a story of authentic life. That’s you, right? In fact, the basis of Islamic iconoclasm comes from its insistence on demonization of history where Islam was absent and consequently, a darker period of the history. Sistine Chapel, Rome, 2020. The act of removing such monuments is one way of actively rejecting the message. I realised that if the TTR website could be used by those who wished to destroy, then it could also be used by those who wished to preserve. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. And it’s because he took Mary’s grief and her pain and taught us all that while father Abraham was saved from making that terrible sacrifice, she was not. As often as not, they claimed heavenly messages or apparitions as their authority. I was absolutely disgusted when RMN introduced that silly new symbol for the church. And then how could you not love and artist who accomplished that while capturing the majesty of not just Mary but motherhood and womanhood??? But moralizing on a entire *medium* (i.e., a forum) of others’ expressions – public or private, ugly or beautiful – is something which I, a fellow attorney, public servant, and progressive liberal, simply cannot stomach. Subscribe here. Why do you enjoy them, or find them important in society? If questioned, I imagine the Britons might have expressed something along the lines of how great it was to get the Roman knee off their throats, “Cougar Stadium wasn’t good enough, they had to rename it after a coach.“. Why do people like Michelangelo, again? Let me do that myself. Some seem entirely mean-spirited. And I think every single building on campus is named after some man. The Daley Center downtown has an abstract Picasso sculpture. Regardless of whether some person led a movement, an army, or a country, we tend to react to their statues with zeal. Thought provoking, Political statues, and statues of discoverers, usually began the disowning/destruction of the aboriginal peoples, totally agree. But this was important for him to try to understand and to struggle with and to create so that others (men, children, women, all of us) might begin to think about this… Grief. After Constantine allowed Christianity in the Roman Empire, Christians tore down so many statues that in Athens they reportedly became known as “the people who move that which should not be moved.” Early church battled each other over religious iconography. We shouldn’t assume that our moral and ethical standards will be acceptable to the coming generations in entirety. The icon is this central gift. I’m far more inclined to look at my neighbor Carol up the street. Consider no statues of people. Not in portrait, and not in statue. But I don’t believe for a second Jesus would have supportive things to say to one of his contemporary disciples who suggested he sit for a statue engraving or portrait session. There is increasing pressure on public authorities to remove the statues connected with colonialism and slavery as if removing these statues will change the history retrospectively. The media have assumed that targeting the junior Robert Peel must be a mistake because he opposed slavery, unlike his father. What I find interesting though is that there does appear to be a generational shift in attitudes about this kind of art and representation. And I think it is made more remarkable because it shows us how much we can understand and learn from each other.

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