Edited by Bernke Klein Zandvoort. Text by Ted Hyunhak Yoon, Erika Doss, Leonor Faber-Jonker, Florian Göttke, Martijn Wallage.
The body politic of public statues, from position to gesture, and the legacy of whose story is told and why
In the words of Hannah Arendt, "Half of politics is image-making, the other half is the art of making people believe the image." From South Africa to Charlottesville, heated discussions over statues, their removal and their vandalism frequently make the news. Decoding Dictatorial Statues, a project by Korean graphic design researcher Ted Hyunhak Yoon, is a collection of images and texts exploring the visual rhetoric of statues in public space. How can we decode statues and their languages, their objecthood and materiality, their role as media icons and their voice in political debates? The book responds to urgent concerns about the representation of our heritage by not only asking us to examine what history gets put on a pedestal, but to also consider the visual rhetoric of the statue itself.
STATUS: Forthcoming | 3/10/2026
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FORMAT: Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 1 duotone / 210 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $35.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $54 ISBN: 9789083318875 PUBLISHER: Set Margins' publications AVAILABLE: 3/10/2026 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Forthcoming AVAILABILITY: Awaiting stock TERRITORY: NA LA ASIA AFR ME
Published by Set Margins' publications. Edited by Bernke Klein Zandvoort. Text by Ted Hyunhak Yoon, Erika Doss, Leonor Faber-Jonker, Florian Göttke, Martijn Wallage.
The body politic of public statues, from position to gesture, and the legacy of whose story is told and why
In the words of Hannah Arendt, "Half of politics is image-making, the other half is the art of making people believe the image." From South Africa to Charlottesville, heated discussions over statues, their removal and their vandalism frequently make the news. Decoding Dictatorial Statues, a project by Korean graphic design researcher Ted Hyunhak Yoon, is a collection of images and texts exploring the visual rhetoric of statues in public space. How can we decode statues and their languages, their objecthood and materiality, their role as media icons and their voice in political debates? The book responds to urgent concerns about the representation of our heritage by not only asking us to examine what history gets put on a pedestal, but to also consider the visual rhetoric of the statue itself.
