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Public Sculpture and Monuments of Gospić from 1990 until Today
Antonia Došen
orcid.org/0000-0001-9647-5008
; Muzej za umjetnost i obrt
Abstract
In an effort to include and valorize sculptures and monuments in the public spaces of Gospić, this paper covers the period from 1990 to the present.49 As the city of
Gospić consists of 50 settlements, the paper deals only with memorials and sculptures at Gospić, with their greatest concentration, among others, in the very center of
the town – Alojzije Stepinac Square and Kolakovac Park. Despite thematically and
typologically different sculptural works, their placement into the urban tissue is in
a specific way related to the contemporary life of Gospić, as well as its society and
politics. The influence of the Homeland War and other political, as well as social circumstances on the construction and removal of sculptures and public monuments
at the very transition from the 20th to the 21st century is quite indicative. The work
also critically observes the installation of recent artistically executed memorials in Gospić and analyses the monument inventory from previous years. It also deals with
conceptual sculptures which appeared in the public space of Gospić along with numerous busts after 2010, and finally, with the project of returning and re-erecting
of the monument to Nikola Tesla by sculptor Fran Kršinić.
Keywords
contemporary sculptors; busts; Gospić; monuments; public sculpture
Hrčak ID:
256541
URI
Publication date:
23.4.2021.
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