Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth About the Past (Paper Back) Architectural History and Styles Guto Requena

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Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth About the Past (Paper Back) Architectural History and Styles Guto RequenaThe past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology upon the physical spaces around us. Holocaust deniers use details of the ruins of the gas chambers Auschwitz to promote their lies: 'No Holes; No Holocaust'. Yet long standing concepts such as 'authenticity' in heritage are undermined and trivialised by gatekeepers such as UNESCO. At the same, time, opposition to this manipulation is being undermined