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https://doi.org/10.17234/SEC.29.7

Our monuments to glorious defeat: Socialist memorial art in Britain

Owen Hatherley


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str. 225-247

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Britain is the one major European country never to have had a numerically significant Communist movement, with Marxism generally limited either to far-left enclaves in Wales and Scotland, Labour Party entryism or, most commonly, academia. However, the Labour movement at its more radical edges has produced numerous monuments, memorials and spaces, littered around urban and even rural Britain. Typically, they are monuments to defeat, given the lack of any hegemonic socialism in Britain. They are also unusually figurative for 20th century public sculpture, suggesting a perhaps unexpected traditionalism, not usually considered to be the case for the ‘west’, in the Cold War polarities often used to analyse monumental artworks. This paper will discuss these narratives of heroic failure as expressed in mosaics, murals, sculptures and plaques in South Wales, the north of England and London as attempts to answer the question of what socialist memorials are like in a country without even historical socialism.

Ključne riječi

Britain; marxism; social democracy; urbanism; nostalgia; sculpture; architecture

Hrčak ID:

191684

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/191684

Datum izdavanja:

29.12.2017.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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