Original scientific paper
Monument, Territory, and the Mediation of War Memory in Socialist Yugoslavia
Sanja Horvatinčić
; Institut za povijest umjetnosti
Abstract
Monuments dedicated to WWII events in socialist Yugoslavia are here correlated with the broader geographic space that they signify. The analysis has been based on the selected examples from Croatia, Slovenia, and Serbia, which reflect three types of relationship between the monument as the signifier and the memorial territory as the signified – the primary object of memorialization, defined by the specificity of the partisan experience of war and the demand for preserving the authentic memorial sites and objects. Innovations in the concepts and formal aspects of these monuments reflected the desire to establish a different relationship with each new generation of users, with the aim of transmitting social memory as efficiently as possible in the given socio-political context.
Keywords
People’s Liberation Struggle monuments; guerrilla warfare; memorial park; memorial territory; socialist Yugoslavia
Hrčak ID:
185546
URI
Publication date:
1.7.2015.
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