Decoding dictatorial statues

Decoding Dictatorial Statues is a collection Responding to current debates on the ONOMATOPEE 157 of images and texts rt.\"Volving around the representation of the historical canon, DECODING different ways statues l,ehave in public these experts' perspectives and Ted DICTATORIAL space. How. can we decode the agency of Hyunhak Yoon's visual framework address STATUES their sculptured body language and their urgent concerns about the depiction and Aproject by sociopolitical role as rnlational objects and representation of both our heritage and Ted Hyunfilrk!Yoon media icons? our future leaders. By asking us to consider Together with Coupling a designer's petspective with an the visual language of the statue itself, this Bemke Klein Zandvoort analytical approach, Ted Hyunhak Yoon project offers a living understanding of a Erika Doss �xplotes the cliched pos� ofdictatorial supposedly long-gone symboltc order and Fabienne Rachmadiev statues. In his image analysis, he lays out a pathway to a more cross-cultural and Florian Gottke a choreography of these sculptures and historic comprehension. JintaegJang uncov s the non-vetbal rhetol'ics that Jo-Lene Ong shapetthem. In the .visual framing ope11ed J.R.Jenkins up by yunhak Yoon's image research, J{axwan Fatah-Black readers can zoom iii'and out the various Leonor Faber-Jonker narratives on offer. :i.tartijn Wallage •i'y_cho v:m der Hoog In addition to these visual narratives, ten authors-acting as a group of decoders­ V' contribute a wide range bf perspectives on the subject, . It's statues from different eras, ----'0\"\"00°\\ located in·different parts of the world, that form the starting point for these precise r-t disses:tions. For instance, what links an qptbrellk of cultural vandalism against \" a 2000 year old Vietnamese devotional subject with the the topplifig of Saddam 0\\ Hussein's statue in 2011? Why would a recently liberated African country opt for a North Korean company to tell its history? How can we define\"historical value iJ;J regards to the removal of colorual monuments fo South Africa, the Netherlands and the United States?