Big schlock candy Mountain: the many meanings of Mount Rushmore. (Culture & Reviews).(Critical Essay)

From: Reason | Date: February 1, 2003| Author: Freund, Charles Paul | Copyright information

UNLIKE THE PRESIDENTIAL statuary and monuments that festoon Washington and later became tourist attractions, Mount Rushmore's quartet of colossal faces was conceived as a tourist attraction (to bolster the faltering local economy) and only afterward took on deeper monumental meaning. For people who perceive it in grand terms, Rushmore is a patriotic psalm in stone, one that catches the national spirit in the true national setting, as opposed to a memorial set m a corrupt, bureaucra...

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