MONUMENT

The strange tale of a tail leads us into the history and art behind the revolutionary toppling of a king.

The expert guest for “MONUMENT” was Wendy Bellion.

Bellion is Associate Dean for the Humanities and the Sewell C. Biggs Chair in American Art History at the University of Delaware. Bellion's scholarship takes an interdisciplinary approach to American visual and material culture, focusing on the late colonial and early national United States and exploring American art within the cultural geographies of the British Atlantic world and early modern Americas. Her books include: Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment (2019) and Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America (2011), which won the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Outstanding Scholarship. Bellion is also co-editor (with Prof. Mónica Domínguez Torres) of Objects in Motion: Art and Material Culture across Colonial North America (2011), a special issue of the journal Winterthur Portfolio.

For more on the tail:

Tail fragment of the Equestrian Statue of King George III, New-York Historical Society

Related objects of interest:

Additional Fragment of the equestrian statue of King George III

Yet another Fragment of the equestrian statue of King George III

Fragment of the equestrian statue of King George III taken by Alwina Wlodeck during a visit to the New-York Historical Society in the 1890s.

Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, Pulling Down the Statue of King George III, New York City (1852–1853), oil on canvas.

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Performance of Jopseph Haydn's Hob III:36 performed and recorded by Gregor Quendel. https://ko-fi.com/gregorquendel