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Monuments 2

>Introduction
>Activity 1: What is a Monument
>Activity 2: Recording the Overlooked at School


Discuss: What is a monument? What can be one? Statue, building, bridge? What can / do they commemorate? Can a monument make history?


Location: in school


Learning Objectives

  • To look at artists who have appropriated the monument
  • To recognise that this appropriation can be playful and serious
  • To tour and record the school considering overlooked or interesting locations, objects or situations
  • To generate ideas for a monument within the school vicinity
  • To discuss ideas as a group

Key Words

  • Monument
  • Overlooked

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Dan Flavin, `Monument' for V. Tatlin, 1966-9 © ARS, NY and DACS, London


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