This article develops an experimental ethnographic investigation into defacement as a popular modality of historical redress. It takes as its point of departure artistic remediations of archival materials pertaining to the commission, transport, and defacement of the statue of Harry S. Truman in Athens, Greece. At the forefront of the analysis is a consideration of such artistic remediations as extensions of the acts of defacement they (re)present. A political aesthetics of defacement is then elaborated through an experimental ethnography of Cold War historical redress centered around a crime scene investigation into the whereabouts and status of Harry S. Truman in present-day Athens. The experiment involves shifting the terms of historical redress from a focus on the statue of Harry S. Truman as a historiographical object of analytical study to the phantasmagoric modes of its ongoing defacement and (re)presentations in and from post-war Greece.

本文对污损作为一种历史性的补救方式进行了实验性的人种学调查。它以与希腊雅典哈里·杜鲁门（Harry S. Truman）雕像的委托，运输和污损有关的档案资料艺术修复为出发点。在分析的最前沿是对艺术补救措施的考虑，例如它们（重新）表现出的污秽行为的扩展。然后，通过对冷战历史补救措施的实验性人种志，详细阐述了污辱的政治美学，其重点是对犯罪现场进行调查，以调查当今雅典的哈里·杜鲁门的下落和地位。实验涉及将历史补救的术语从关注哈里·S雕像转移到其他方面。