What and how do we memorialise in a public monument? This lesson focuses on memorials in public spaces, what they memorialise, what they look like and what form they take.
A range of public, permanent monuments that memorialise warfare and conflict from around the world.
A range of recent memorials from 1980 onwards.
Various examples of memorials to ordinary lives.
Features memorials and artist’ impressions of proposed memorials in London and New York.
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