Guest Editor's Introduction
Year: 2014
Type: editorial
Abstract: T his issue of the Indiana Magazine of History features essays that emerged from the "Art, Race, Space" symposium held at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in January 2013.Scholars and members of the public gathered to interpret and discuss an incident in Indiana' s very recent past-the controversy over artist Fred Wilson' s proposed public sculpture, E Pluribus Unum.For some readers, this incident may appear entirely too recent to be the subject of historical investigation.Further, public art controversy is hardly unusual.Cancellation of public art, however, is rare in the United States; as Bridget Cooks notes in her essay in this issue, the termination of Wilson' s commission may be one of the few such incidents in the country. 1 Much of this particular controversy turned on interpretations of the past, particularly on what should be remembered and what should be forgotten about slavery.Many of those who participated in the symposium argued that the issues which were passionately discussed in the course of the controversy-including Modupe Labode is Assistant Professor of History and Museum Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, where she is also a public scholar of African American History and Museums.Her academic interests include African American history, local history, and public history.Prof. Labode
Source: Indiana Magazine of History
Author: Modupe Labode
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4237635886