Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century, by Lucia Allais

Book of the week: James Stevens Curl is impressed by a marriage of modern architecture and monument preservation

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December 6, 2018

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December 6, 2018

James Stevens Curl

So-called Monuments Men inspecting a destroyed monument

Monuments men: during the Second World War, building inventories were made as a way to protect cultural property in war areas

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