The Monument - Art, Vulgarity and Responsibility in Iraq

The University of California Press, 1991. Fade marks to top and left hand edges of dustjacket front cover, otherwise good secondhand copy.

Content: The art of the monument -- The symbolism of the monument -- The monument and the city -- Politics as art -- Andy Warhol and Saddam Husain -- Vulgarity and art -- The kitsch of Baghdad -- Turath as art -- Singling out the monument -- Ethical ambiguities.