Practice question · Select all that apply
Which responses to a contested monument exist besides retaining or removing it?
Hints
- Three are middle options; one is a way of strengthening the original claim.
- The debate usually proceeds as though only two options existed.
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- A. Recontextualising it with added interpretation
- B. Adding a counter-work that answers it
- C. Relocating it to a museum
Why
The three middle options are what the public argument usually omits. Recontextualising leaves the object and adds interpretation; relocation preserves it while withdrawing the assertion; a counter-work answers rather than erases, and none of these is available if the question is posed as keep or destroy.
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