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counter-monument: a standalone construct

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Art history

memorials that unsettle the traditional monument by disappearing, inviting intervention or refusing consolation, as in recent German Holocaust memorials.

In art history, counter-monument refers to memorials that unsettle the traditional monument by disappearing, inviting intervention or refusing consolation, as in recent German Holocaust memorials. This meaning comes from Young (1992) in Critical Inquiry.[1]

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  1. Young, J. E. (1992). The Counter-Monument: Memory against Itself in Germany Today. Critical Inquiry, 18(2), 267-296. https://doi.org/10.1086/448632

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