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Visibility of selected public monuments in Belgrade area [PDF]
The article analyzes a number of significant public monuments in Belgrade, in the context of their compromised visibility and presentation in their surroundings, with common problems being inappropriately planted vegetation facing the front side of the ...
Ristanović Aleksandra M.
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Mapping British Public Monuments Related to Slavery [PDF]
This article is a product of the first complete survey of British public representational monuments in the UK related to transatlantic slavery, available online at Britishpublicmonumentsrelatedtoslavery.net. Identifying over 900 monuments, it brings this
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Identity, Memory, and Monuments: problematics of referentiality [PDF]
Honoring a person or an event, public monuments interrupt geographical landscapes and point to a temporal past asking us to stop, to look, and to engage memory.
Nancy Ciccone
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Public monument as a constituent of cultural identity of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija [PDF]
The national and cultural identity of a nation is, among other things, established through the monumental heritage of a certain territory. For Serbs living in Kosovo and Metohija, monuments glorifying the glorious Serbian past (Serbian heroes, rulers ...
Elezović Zvezdana M.
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“Little of Artistic Merit?”: The Art of the American South
As Americanists, reckoning with the South might also help us to understand its diverse regional histories and reflect upon broader national contemporary discourses, both from within and without.
Naomi Slipp
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PUBLIC SPACE AND MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE
The Belem Tower was initiated in 1515, thus being built the last fortress, a military defence mechanism strategically placed on Tagus, but it also served as a protection to the biggest monastery built, the Monastery and Church of Jeronimos. Paulo Pereira emphasises that this reason explains the morphology of the Tower and its ornamental opulence, which
D. Patricia, P. Teresa
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Commemoration of an Epoch: Monuments to the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States
This data-driven analysis unearths monuments that have received little attention, reveals an evolving narrative of the public commemoration of women, and demonstrates how the methods of the digital humanities can enhance the study of art.
Sierra Rooney
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Formation of monument protection activities in Soviet Belarus in the years of «thaw» (1953–1968)
The author analyses the change in state policy, as well as the revival of public initiative in the field of protection of cultural monuments, as a result of the liberalisation of social and political life in Soviet Belarus during the «thaw».
Alexander A. Huzhalouski
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Elaborating historical thinking on monuments [PDF]
Public history culture recently is characterized by controversial debates on monuments, their replacement or alteration. History education which aims at enabling and empowering stu- dents to partake in such controversial public history culture needs to ...
Körber, Andreas
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Identity Crises and Confusions: Metamorphosis Constantiniana
Public monuments are the materialization of historical events or persons chosen to be remembered by a society, official factors of collective and cultural memory, elements of the chosen identity and the ways in which the community aims to be perceived ...
Tatjana B. Cvjetićanin
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