Meaning of statuomania | Babel Free

Definitions

An obsession with putting up statues, especially with reference to France.

historical, uncountable

Examples

“To carry⟳ this out would not be difficult with a people so deeply imbued with veneration for the dead, amongst whom Positivism seeks to replace⟳ the forms of religious worship⟳ by honours rendered to the great, and with whom for some time past the rage for statues, now being erected all over France, seems to be degenerating into a "statuomania."”

“The major characteristic of French ‘statuomania’ was its democracy, anticipating that of the war memorials after 1914-18.”

“On the left too voices were raised against this ‘statuomania’: would it not be far better to spend⟳ all that money on bread for the poor?”

“The statues of Joseph II, together with the Czech program⟳ of statue production in the same era, represent⟳ variants of the well-known French "statuomania" that was so pervasive in the late nineteenth century [...].”

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