Discuss the current issues surrounding monuments and memorials as contested works of American visual culture.

Discuss the current issues surrounding monuments and memorials as contested works of American visual culture.

In the United States, there is currently a great deal of controversy over monuments and memorials in the South – the former Confederate States of America – centered on the Civil War. The issues surrounding these works have become particularly heated since events in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. The following two tasks ask you to think and write critically about this current debate.