Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these responses to a contested monument from the least to the most intervention in the object.
- Add interpretation around it
- Retain it unchanged
- Relocate it to a museum
- Add a counter-work answering it
- Remove it entirely
Hints
- The sequence runs by how much the object itself is affected.
- Adding something leaves the object untouched.
Show the answer
- Retain it unchanged
- Add interpretation around it
- Add a counter-work answering it
- Relocate it to a museum
- Remove it entirely
Why
Setting the options on a gradient is what the public debate usually skips. The middle three leave the object intact while changing what it asserts, and they are available precisely when the argument has been posed as though only the two ends existed.
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