| Description |
64 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 34 cm |
| Series |
Roma Publication ; 141 |
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ROMA publication ; 141
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| Summary |
During the 1960s and 70s, thousands of monuments commemorating the Second World War called 'Spomeniks' were built throughout the former Yugoslavia; striking monumental sculptures, with an angular geometry echoing the shapes of flowers, crystals, and macro-views of viruses or DNA. In the 1980s the Spomeniks still attracted millions of visitors from the Eastern bloc; today they are largely neglected and unknown, their symbolism lost and unwanted. Antwerp-based photographer Jan Kempenaers travelled the Balkans photographing these eerie objects, presented in this book as a powerful typological series. The beauty and mystery of the isolated, crumbling Spomeniks informs Kempenaer's enquiry into memory, found beauty, and whether former monuments can function as pure sculpture |
| Subject |
Kempenaers, Jan, 1968-
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Monuments in art.
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Monuments -- Yugoslavia -- Pictorial works.
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Outdoor sculpture -- Yugoslavia -- Pictorial works.
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Photography of sculpture -- Yugoslavia -- Pictorial works.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Monuments -- Yugoslavia -- Pictorial works.
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| Genre/Form |
Illustrated works.
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| Author |
Neutelings, Willem Jan, 1959-
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| ISBN |
9077459502 |
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9789077459508 |
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