Practice question · True or false
Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial lists the names in the order the deaths occurred rather than by rank.
Hints
- Ask what ordering by rank would assert.
- Chronological order refuses a hierarchy among the dead.
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True
Why
True, and it is one of the refusals that made the design contested. Ordering by rank would assert a hierarchy among the dead; chronological order refuses it, and combined with cutting into the earth rather than rising from it, the design withholds nearly everything the traditional grammar supplies.
Practise The Monument and the Counter-Monument
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- Why does a counter-monument refuse permanence and elevation rather than simply adopting a modern style?
- Sort each feature by whether it belongs to the TRADITIONAL monument grammar or to a COUNTER-monument.
- Which responses to a contested monument exist besides retaining or removing it?
- Traditional monuments are designed to do the remembering for the viewer, whereas counter-monuments transfer…
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- Complete the account of commemoration.
- Arrange these responses to a contested monument from the least to the most intervention in the object.
- A counter-monument that becomes a beloved permanent landmark has, on its own terms, partly failed.