Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments

Exhibit Date

Mon, 28 Mar, 2022 - 10:14 AM

Exhibit Date

Mon, 03/28/2022 - 10:14

Erin L. Thompson Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments

Monday, April 4 at 7pm

Carter Presidential Museum Theater

Author Program and Book Signing

Free and Open to the Public

An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? Which ones should stay up and which should come down? Who should make these decisions, and how? Erin L. Thompson, the country’s leading expert in the tangled aesthetic, legal, political, and social issues involved in such battles, brings much-needed clarity in Smashing Statues.