Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past - Robert Bevan (Verso Books) MIT Press All Flowers and Roses

All Flowers and Roses

the second woman remembers her own litany of losses — of a language

— Nadje Al-Ali

expressing their own truths is a politically radical stance

allowing us to step into the illusion of the known

Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past - Robert Bevan (Verso Books) MIT Press All Flowers and RosesHow 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