Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past - Robert Bevan (Verso Books) MIT Press or untouched by

or untouched by

We might add that the title Shkrepëtima summarises the very essence of the artist’s vision

She died in 1986

— Nadje Al-Ali

expressing their own truths is a politically radical stance

Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past - Robert Bevan (Verso Books) MIT Press or untouched byHow statues, heritage and the built environment have become the battleground for the culture wars. The past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology upon the physical spaces around us. Holocaust deniers use details of the ruins of the gas chambers Auschwitz to promote their lies: No Holes; No Holocaust. Yet long standing concepts such as authenticity in heritage are undermined and trivialised by