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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Spomenik Monument Database

Spomenik Monument Database

Niebyl, Donald
Murray, Damon
Sorrell, Stephen

Hardcover

General ArchitectureGeneral PhotographyRussian History

Publisher Price: $34.95

ISBN10: 0995745536
ISBN13: 9780995745537
Publisher: Fuel
Published: Aug 28 2018
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.70 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

A guidebook to the wild world of communist minimalism in Tito's Yugoslavia

Spomenik--the Serbo-Croat/Slovenian word for monument--refers to the memorials built in Tito's Republic of Yugoslavia from the 1960s to the 1980s, marking the horror of the occupation and the defeat of Axis forces during World War II. Hundreds were built across the country, from coastal resorts to remote mountains. Through these imaginative forms of concrete and steel, a classless, forward-looking socialist society, free of ethnic tensions, was envisaged. Instead of looking to the ideologically aligned Soviet Union for artistic inspiration, Tito turned to the West and works of abstract expressionism and minimalism. This allowed Yugoslavia to develop its own distinct identity through the monuments, turning them into political tools, articulating Tito's personal vision of a new tomorrow.

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