| 1.1 | Travis De Vries (1988-), Tear It Down (Cook Falling), 2019. Digital art print on museum archival textured paper, 42 × 59.4 cm, edition of 10. Sydney: Australia Museum. | 28 |
| 1.2 | Tony Albert (1981-), You Wreck Me #9, 2020. Printed photograph and vintage Captain Cook ephemera on archival paper, 24.5 × 24.5 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney. | 29 |
| 1.3 | Autoridades cubren con plástico la estatua de Cristóbal Colón de Paseo de la Reforma [Authorities cover the Christopher Columbus statue in plastic, Paseo de la Reforma], 2007. Mexico City: Archivo El Universal. | 31 |
| 1.4 | Alberto Quezada Híjar (1990-), Lo vamos a derribar, 2020. Digital illustration. | 32 |
| 2.1 | Canadian passport, Observation page 5, “Symboles des peuples autochtones au Canada/Symbols of Aboriginal peoples in Canada.” | 50 |
| 2.2 | Canadian passport, Visa pages 6–7, “Samuel de Champlain, père de la Nouvelle-France/Samuel de Champlain, Father of New France.” | 51 |
| 2.3 | Canadian passport, Visa pages 8–9, “The Fathers of Confederation/Les Pères de la Confédération.” | 51 |
| 2.4 | Totem poles at Brockton Point, X̱wáýx̱way/Stanley Park, Vancouver. | 56 |
| 2.5 | Ogimaa Mikana Project (Susan Blight and Hayden King), Untitled (All Walls Crumble), 2017. Part of the Language of Puncture exhibition curated by Joi T. Arcand. | 60 |
| 2.6 | Digital Natives, April 4–30, 2011. If you lived under this bridge you’d be home by now. #gentrification. Electronic Billboard. Burrard Street Bridge, Vancouver, BC, Canada. | 61 |
| 2.7 | Digital Natives, April 4–30, 2011. Dukwalam̓asixwa Ḵikw? Can you see the totem pole? Contributed by Marianne Nicolson. In Kwak’wala and English. Electronic Billboard. Burrard Street Bridge, Vancouver, BC, Canada. | 62 |
| 4.1 | Statue of Leopold II (2020).Photo. Ghent, Belgium. | 76 |
| 4.2 | Mercure statue (December 2020). Photo. Fuente Alemana, Santiago de Chile. | 77 |
| 4.3 | Alan Michelson, Hanödaga.yas. Town Destroyer (2018). | 91 |
| 4.4 | Ada Pinkston, LandMarked (2017). Performance. Baltimore. | 92 |
| 4.5 | Ali Al-Fatlawi, Wathiq Al-Ameri and Marcio Carvalho Marcio, Demythologize That History and Put it to Rest (2018). Photo. Tiergarten, Berlin. | 94 |
| 4.6 | Juan Antonio Cerezuela, Zahira Dehn Tutosaus and Diana Juanpere Dunyó, Colon fantasmagorico/ (2020). Video. | 95 |
| 4.7 | Banksy, No Title (2020). Painting. Bristol. | 99 |
| Similar-looking Chiang Kai-shek statues looking at one another in the Cihu Memorial Sculpture Park, Daxi District, Taoyuan City. | 120 | |
| 5.2 | A statue of Chiang with children in the Cihu Memorial Sculpture Park. | 121 |
| 5.3 | Military honorary guards shift change, Chiang Kai-shek Mausoleum in Cihu, Daxi District, Taoyuan City. | 122 |
| 5.4 | The Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City. This photo was taken in the Liberty Square looking at the main hall structure. The Ming dynasty palace style building on the right-hand side is the National Theater and on the left-hand side, the National Concert Hall. | 123 |
| 5.5 | The 6.3-meter Lincolnesque bronze statue of Chiang Kai-shek sitting on an elevated platform inside the main hall structure. | 124 |
| 5.6 | Parents and children attending the 2021 “Taiwan Reading Festival” at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall. | 128 |
| 5.7 | An equestrian statue of Chiang Kai-shek, National Chengchi (NCCU) University campus, Wenshan District, Taipei City. The NCCU, now one of the best public research universities in Taiwan, was originally founded by Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing, China in 1927 as a training school for the Nationalist Party cadres. | 129 |
| 5.8 | The memorial structure dedicated to White Terror Victims built into a corner of “Long Live Chiang Kai-shek Park.” | 131 |
| 6.1 | Henry Schrady (1871–1922) and Leo Lentelli (1879–1961), Robert E. Lee Monument, 1924, Charlottesville, Virginia. | 138 |
| 6.2 | Antonin Mercié (1845–1916), Robert E. Lee Monument, 1890, Richmond, Virginia. | 140 |
| 6.3 | White nationalists during a torch-lit march at the statue of Thomas Jefferson on the grounds of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, August 11, 2017. | 145 |
| 6.4 | White nationalists protesting the removal of the Robert E. Lee monument at the Unite-the-Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12, 2017. | 146 |
| 6.5 | Signboard in front of Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Monument for the newly renamed Marcus-David Peters Circle, July 2020. | 147 |
| 6.6 | Robert E. Lee Monument, Richmond covered with graffiti with shrines for victims of police violence, July 2020. | 148 |
| 6.7 | Projection of George Floyd photograph onto the Robert E. Lee Monument, Richmond, Virginia, Summer 2020. | 154 |
| 6.8 | Bowls of basil placed on the site of the former Robert E. Lee Monument in Charlottesville, Virginia, July 2021. | 156 |
| 8.1 | Romy Rondeltap, head of the board of the Building the Baileo Foundation. | 183 |
| 9.1 | Panoramic view from the Vilanova City Council balcony. Photograph by Adrià Enríquez and Gerard Llorens. | 190 |
| 9.2 | Statue of Ventosa. Photograph by Adrià Enríquez & Gerard Llorens | 196 |
| Ventosa amb la samarreta del Club Patí Vilanova. Ajuntament de Vilanova. | 197 | |
| 9.4 | Les pancartes contra els «presos polítics» tornen a exhibir-se a l’Ajuntament de Vilanova i la Geltrú. CCMA. | 198 |
| 9.5 | Els bombers retiren una cadira penjada sobre el monument de la plaça de la Vila de Vilanova. Eix Diari. | 198 |
| 9.6 | Comparses de Vilanova. | 199 |
| 9.7 | Vuit litres de sang a Tomàs Ventosa. Arran Vilanova. Released on social media and the online journal Eix Diari by Arran. | 200 |
| 10.1 | William Gibson (1790–1866). Statue of William Huskisson, 1836. Carrara Marble. Pimlico Gardens, London. | 216 |
| 10.2 | Empty plinth, formerly supporting the bronze version of William Gibson’s statue of William Huskisson. princes road, Liverpool. | 218 |
| 10.3 | William Gibson (1790–1866). statue of William Huskisson, 1846. Bronze. Duke Street, Liverpool. | 222 |
| 10.4 | William Gibson. statue of William Huskisson, 1846. Bronze. Duke Street, Liverpool. | 227 |
| 10.5 | William Gibson. statue of William Huskisson, 1846. Bronze. Duke Street, Liverpool. | 233 |
| 11.1 | Horst Hoheisel’s 1987 Negativform des neuen Aschrottbrunnen in Kassel, a fountain replacing the original Aschrottbrunnen. The new fountain dates from 1987 and was built “inverted,” i. e. it goes down into the earth rather than upwards. | 251 |
| 12.1 | Alexandra Pirici, Soft Power, 2014, sculptural addition to the Bronze Horseman public monument, St. Petersburg. part of the public program of manifesta 10, 2014 | 259 |
| 12.2 | Alexandra Pirici, Soft Power, 2014, sculptural addition to/enactment of the statue of Lenin in Finland Square, St. Petersburg. part of the public program of manifesta 10, 2014 | 260 |
| 12.3 | Morehshin Allahyari, King Uthal from the series material speculation: ISIS, 2015, 3D-printed resin with embedded portable data-storage device, 30.5 x 10.2 x 8.9 cm, image courtesy of the artist | 262 |
| 12.4 | Morehshin Allahyari, Lamassu from the series material speculation: ISIS, 2015, 3D-printed resin with embedded portable data-storage device, 15.9 x 15.9 x 3.2 cm, image courtesy of the artist | 263 |
| 12.5 | Julius von Bismarck & Julian Charrière, Grand Staircase Escalante, We Must Ask You to Leave (mountain view drive), 2018, Copyright the artists; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany | 266 |
| 12.6 | Julius von Bismarck & Julian Charrière, Canyonlands, We Must Ask You to Leave (panoramic viewpoint), 2018, Copyright the artists; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany | 267 |
| Julius von Bismarck & Julian Charrière, We Must Ask You to Leave, Island in the Sky (panoramic viewpoint), 2018, Copyright the artists; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany | 267 | |
| 12.8 | Julius von Bismarck & Julian Charrière, In the Real World It Doesn’t Happen That Perfectly, 2019, Video Still, Copyright the artists; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, German | 271 |
| 13.1 | “Kap”, Colin Kaepernick, poses with Steve Aoki in front of a mural, from Colin’s Facebook account, posted on 29.10.17. The Facebook post reads: “Great to build with Steve Aoki. The movement is contagious, and the people in it are the ones who pass on the spirit - Yuri Kochiyama, Know Your Rights Camp” https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1504293689624868&set=pcb.1504293736291530 | 280 |
| 13.2 | “Massive crowd Marches across City for Peaceful San Francisco George Floyd Protest”. 3 June 2020 © Wikimedia Commons, Released into the Public Domain | 281 |
| 13.3 | Brad Sherman, Members of Congress, tweeted on June 8, 2020, https://twitter.com/BradSherman/status/1270043467419435009. The tweet reads: “I joined my colleagues today in a moment of silence to honor the African American lives lost to #PoliceBrutality & systematic injustices. We hear the American people demanding change and the time for action is now. #BlackLivesMatter” © Wikimedia Commons, Released into the Public Domain | 282 |
| 13.4 | White people kneel and ask forgiveness from the black community in the Third Ward, Houston, Still from a video posted in yourube channel KPRC 2 Click2Houston. June 1, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdX6aVzPgHs | 283 |
| 13.5 | Benjamin Robert Haydon, The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840, London, National Portrait Gallery NPG 599, 297cm x 384cm. | 286 |
| 13.6 | Mitchell, Pat, Graffiti-sprayed Captain Cook monument in Melbourne’s Edinburgh Gardens. From: Baxter, Claire. “Statues aren’t our history. They’re our archaeol-ogy.” Clarence30B. 28 January 2022. https://clarenceb30.medium.com/statues-arent-our-history-they-re-our-archaeology-e3f12996092a. Image: Pat Mitchell on Twitter @patty_mitchell | 293 |
| 13.7 | Project for a planned art installation by Péter Szalay in Budapest. Photo published in Nyugat.hu, 02.04.21. Józig Antál, “Szombathelyi galériás vette meg a ledöntött budapesti szobrot, amit mindenki félreért”. 23.02.22 | 300 |
| 14.1 | Fist raised up. | 310 |
| 14.2 | Protesters under a red moon. | 311 |
| 15.1 | Ada Pinkston, LandMarked, performance photographic still, 2018, Mt. Vernon, Baltimore, MD | 316 |
| 15.2 | LandMarked workshops, 2016–2019 | 319 |
| 15.3 | Ada Pinkston, La Noire De, 2012, performance (video still), 14 Karate Kabaret, Baltimore | 321 |
| Ada Pinkston, La Noire De, 2012, performance (video still) | 322 | |
| 15.5 | Robert E. Lee/Stonewall Jackson double-equestrian monument, 1939–1948 | 324 |
| 15.6 | Ada Pinkston, LandMarked, 2018, video-performance still, Wyman Dell Park/Harriet Tubman Grove, Baltimore | 326 |
| 15.7 | Ada Pinkston, LandMarked, 2018, video-performance still | 327 |
| 15.8 | Ada Pinkston, LandMarked, 2018, video-performance still | 328 |
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