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Paul Gough "Fault
lines: Four short observations on places of peace, trauma and contested
remembrance'
Journal of Visual Art Practice , Volume
5 Number 1 2006
A Vignette of Commemoration in Middle
England
Preservation of historical remains is ridden
with complexity. In particular, battle landscapes are multi-layered,
with many different and intersecting ideas and meanings about identity,
place and landscape production. This article explores the site of
battle as a place of the imagination, as a site of continued dispute,
a ‘debatable land’.
Focusing on contested terrain in northern Europe, the article also
briefly examines the creation of new monuments in ‘imperial’
London and New York, suggesting that the lack of a dialogical rationale
for such memorabilia fails to extend the language of remembrance,
settling instead for monolithic forms that perpetuate the status
quo, prioritizing the ‘plinth’ over more fluid forms
of remembering.
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