It's easier in the United States to find a sculpture of a mermaid than of any American-born woman who actually is part of this world.
It's easier in the United States to find a sculpture of a mermaid than of any American-born woman who actually is part of this world.Monument Lab, a nonprofit that in 2021 counted who and what Americans honor in their public art — 22 sculptures of mermaids, to 21 honoring abolitionistFor Women's History Month, we looked into whether increased awareness of the lack of diversity in American monuments and sculptures has created actual change.Not really.
But public art in the U.S. has long presented a lopsided view that can leave the impression that American history is all horses and white male military veterans.
Only one woman is featured in more sculptures than Tubman, according to the Monument Lab audit: Joan of Arc, the patron saint of France who became popular here when her image became a symbol of the Allies in World War I. She died more than three centuries before the founding of the United States.by Sierra Rooney, assistant professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
Only 32% of monuments to women are figurative. "The rest are super abstract, so … it looks like a fountain or a bird bath," Mobley says.When women are represented in monuments and statues, they are often allegorical or fictional characters, such as the depiction of
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