“In a time when monuments need to be reconceptualized and the recording of histories needs to be interrogated, this book provides a thoughtful perspective on what it means to call into question the tenets that have informed our current memorial landscape. Investigating the prevalence of violence, oppression, hypermasculinity, and singularity in monuments, Bass encourages readers to consider how these themes prevail globally. She questions what if, instead of being a testament to power and authority that ultimately needs to be dismantled and opposed, monuments were representative of the collective will of people?”—Jha D Amazi, Principal and Director of the Public Memory and Memorials Lab, MASS Design Group“The Monument’s End is a sustained tour de force. Marisa Anne Bass’s knowledge of contemporary monuments—their particular aesthetics and their fate—is as impressive as her knowledge of the seventeenth-century monuments that constitute the book’s core. At every point, the book makes history relevant to our own time. This will be a landmark work.”—David A. Freedberg, author of Iconoclasm“The Monument’s End is a highly original work—a study that moves beyond the monuments to consider public reception, appropriation, and reaction throughout the lifetime of the monument. Based on a wide array of original sources and modern studies, Bass’s approach is novel and imaginative.”—Henk van Nierop, author of Treason in the Northern Quarter: War, Terror, and the Rule of Law in the Dutch Revolt“Marisa Anne Bass’s new book is a visually lovely, intellectually original study, offering an important argument about the politics and culture of the Dutch Republic.”—Martin van Gelderen, author of The Political Thought of the Dutch Revolt, 1555–1590