{"product_id":"joana-maso-tosquelles-healing-institutions-copy","title":"Robert Bevan: Monumental Lies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVerso Books, 2026, softcover, 400 pages, 12.9 x 19.8 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow the past is memorialized can have a dangerous influence on the future. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMonumental Lies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e exposes the truths buried at contested heritage sites and demands that we safeguard the material evidence of history from both malign defenders and over-enthusiastic erasure. Robert Bevan challenges us to rethink our relationship with our contested spaces, from colonial statues and the physical legacy of fascism, to fake post-conflict reconstructions and ethno-nationalist narratives about beauty and tradition. He questions symbolic power and symbolic changes and explains why wording on a plaque is never a substitute for tackling problem monuments through artistic transformations at scale.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57921094189440,"sku":null,"price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/71e-_ppH6FL._SY522.jpg?v=1776690099","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/joana-maso-tosquelles-healing-institutions-copy","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}