Naslov
A Lost State of Plenitude. Commemorating the Homeland War in Public Spaces in Croatia

Autori
Križić Roban, Sandra

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Constructing the Memory of War in Visual Culture since 1914. The Eye on War

Urednik/ci
Murray, Ann

Izdavač
Routledge

Grad
New York (NY)

Godina
2018

Raspon stranica
235-247

ISBN
978-1-13-850297-0

Ključne riječi
monumental sculpture ; collective memory ; Croatian Homeland War ; institutionalization of memory ; public space

Sažetak
The change that befell Eastern European countries after the fall of the Berlin Wall reflected on the processes and role of memory in the context of a past intensely characterised by the events during and after World War II. Communism and socialism, which formed the post-war space of the so-called “other” Europe, also affected the art scene, as it tried to reintegrate itself into the art history of the West among universal and recognisable art canons. At the same moment, to complicate things further, parallel with the Croatian Homeland War, Croatian society was undergoing a transition aspiring in principle to democracy and simultaneously denying and reinterpreting the past. Present monumental heritage provides an opportunity to link memory to history and materialise recent events by allowing artists to adopt inherited artistic ideas and create work free of political influence. Regrettably, the objects commemorating the Croatian Homeland War testify to the appropriation of public space in a manner that fails to interact with their surroundings or engage the public. Their number and typological features reveal the bureaucratic process of archivalisation and the institutionalisation of memory, whereby solutions that would invite the spectator to grasp the event directly, without the mediation of monumental gesture, seem to be discouraged.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest umjetnosti, Likovne umjetnosti

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