Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.17685/Peristil.60.10
Intellectual in Socialist Art: Branko Ružić’s Monument to Moša Pijade in Belgrade
Katarina Mitrović
; Historical Museum of Serbia
Abstract
The paper analyses the monument to the revolutionary Moša Pijade in the context of the role of art in the culture of remembrance of socijalist Yugoslavia. The symbolic and representational basis of the monument is centred on the myth of the ideal-type figure of intellectual-activist, embodied in a modernist monument which encompasses a visual pattern appropriated from Christian iconography. The monument is perceived as indicator of complex strategies of adapting the symbolic politics of the Communist Party to the new circumstances of liberalization of social and cultural life.
Keywords
Moša Pijade; Branko Ružić; monument; remembrance; symbolical politics; socialist modernism; Belgrade
Hrčak ID:
195206
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2017.
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