Naslov
The Peculiar Case of Spomeniks. Monumental Commemorative Sculpture in former Yugoslavia Between Invisibility and Popularity

Autori
Horvatinčić, Sanja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Skup
II Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture. Peripheral Modernities

Mjesto i datum
Lisabon, Portugal, 08.07.2012. - 14.07.2012

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Monumental Commemorative Sculpture ; SFRY ; Internet ; Modernism

Sažetak
Spomenik seems to be the most recent word of Croatian and other languages of former Yugoslavia which has entered English language. Originally, the term denotes any kind of architectural or sculptural work dedicated to important people and events, and is generally used for all historical periods and purposes, regardless of their artistic and/or political characteristics. However, what it recently seems to become associated with on the Internet is a specific art-historical sculptural phenomenon from the second half of the 20th century. Due to Yugoslav unaligned political position in the context of the Cold War, its official attitude toward Modernist aesthetics was of considerate political importance as it served as a visible and evident demonstration of political independence, as well as compliance with both sides. Therefore, many official state commissions of the second half of the 20th century resulted in a peculiar blend of shape and content: while featuring High Modernist aesthetics and formal repertoire of contemporary Western art, they celebrated the defeat of Fascism and the victory of Communist ideas. By analysing contemporary semantic shift – semantic narrowing – of the term spomenik which seems to be happening on various foreign websites (from highly specialized to trivial ones), my paper will try to observe problems of the Western perception of Central Eastern European art of the socialist period, and on a more general level, the problem of the western perception of the so-called peripheral modernities.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
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