Naslov
On the Footsteps of the Giants: Authenticity of War Heritage in Socialist Yugoslavia

Autori
Horvatinčić, Sanja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
International Workshop Radical Heritage: Tracing Resistance in (Post)Socialist Europe / Program & Book of Abstracts / Horvatinčić, Sanja ; Gomes Coelho, Rui - Zagreb : Institut za povijest umjetnosti, Online Edition, 2022, 11-12

Skup
Radical Heritage: Tracing Resistance in (Post)Socialist Europe

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 08.09.2022. - 09.09.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
War Heritage ; Second World War ; authenticity ; WW2 Memorials

Sažetak
The ways in which material culture of a certain event is documented, categorized, and interpreted as heritage reflects how the dominant value system is reproduced, consolidated, or challenged. In the dynamic political context of socialist Yugoslavia (1945-1990), material culture was of utmost importance for constituting and legitimizing narratives related to the “authentic” revolutionary antifascist struggle, as well as for consolidating the complex consequences of the civil war and fascist terror conducted by the local Axis collaborators in the ethnically mixed Balkan territory during the Second World War. Contrary to the fetishization of Yugoslav modernist aesthetics in monuments of post- socialist period, it was the notion of “authenticity” that crucially defined heritage policies of WW2-related sites and objects. This had a remarkable effect on commemorative and artistic practices of monument-making in socialist Yugoslavia. This paper will discuss several case- studies which demonstrate the converging interests of documenting and protecting WW2 material culture, and artistic practices of monument-making in situ. Located at war-time historical sites, these monuments and memorial parks often aimed at mobilizing material traces and landscapes of the heroic past, in order to envision new models of collective remembrance. While WW2 memorial sites often became stages of new armed conflicts during the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia, revealing the utter deception and hypocrisy of grand monumental gestures, some memorial sites and traces of past emancipatory struggles continue to inspire and mobilize ideas of resilience, solidarity and social justice in the present moment.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest, Povijest umjetnosti

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