Monuments, power and contested space - The iconography of Sackville Street (O'Connell Street) before Independence (1922)
"Much recent work reveals a preoccupation with questions of power and meaning, while acknowledging the situated nature of research and the political nature of interpretation (see Graham and Nash, 2000)."
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Statumania
"Until the outbreak of World War I, statues served as a symbolic device of enormous popularity. Europe's imperial powers were gripped by a frenzy of monument building or 'statumania'. In London, Paris and across Germany the capacity of the seemingly innocuous public statue to engage with popular public opinion, to shape ideals and political values and to contribute to the nation-building process, was made patently clear."
"The nineteenth century was to see an era that Agulhon has called one of statumania. Erecting statues was a pedagogic device used by the dominant political ideologies to win over the inhabitants, helping to create an imagined community of Frenchmen, whether Royalist or Republican. Benedict Anderson has reminded us that the only "real" community is the village—the rest is imagined, an artifact." (Cohen,1989)
First after French Revolution
"Even prior to the beheading of the king, royalty was physically assaulted. In August 1792 the Revolutionary Assembly decreed the destruction of monuments glorifying the royal house, "erected to pride, superstition and tyranny."6 Upon the return of monarchy to France after 1814, many of the monuments that had been previously destroyed or removed were rebuilt, restoring not only the monarchy, but its symbols." (Cohen,1989)
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Statumania
"Until the outbreak of World War I, statues served as a symbolic device of enormous popularity. Europe's imperial powers were gripped by a frenzy of monument building or 'statumania'. In London, Paris and across Germany the capacity of the seemingly innocuous public statue to engage with popular public opinion, to shape ideals and political values and to contribute to the nation-building process, was made patently clear."
"The nineteenth century was to see an era that Agulhon has called one of statumania. Erecting statues was a pedagogic device used by the dominant political ideologies to win over the inhabitants, helping to create an imagined community of Frenchmen, whether Royalist or Republican. Benedict Anderson has reminded us that the only "real" community is the village—the rest is imagined, an artifact." (Cohen,1989)
First after French Revolution
"Even prior to the beheading of the king, royalty was physically assaulted. In August 1792 the Revolutionary Assembly decreed the destruction of monuments glorifying the royal house, "erected to pride, superstition and tyranny."6 Upon the return of monarchy to France after 1814, many of the monuments that had been previously destroyed or removed were rebuilt, restoring not only the monarchy, but its symbols." (Cohen,1989)
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