Destruction of Art, Postmodernism, and Being a Whole Person
Today I was looking for alternative news outlets, and I came a link to the dated article, Museum [The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center] Proposes Melting Lee Statue to Make New Artwork, Oct. 21, 2021, Bloomberg, US edition. Which piqued my interest for one reason: as a variation on the postmodern project—destroying an artwork to create something else.
The museum had already secured pledges of $590,000 from The Memory Project at UVa’s Democracy Initiative, Open Society Foundations (George Soros funded), and Virginia Humanities. Apparently it would cost a million dollars to make a new artwork from the old one.
From the 2020s The Robert E. Lee Monument became a center for rallying cries of racial injustice. It was period when riots broke-out after the death of George Floyd. During this period there was nationwide destruction of public art sculptures. [I don't think any government should support the arts, they hav…