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

https://hrcak.srce.hr/195206

Publication date:

31.12.2017.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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