A Flower for the Dead: The Memorials of Bogdan Bogdanović, Achleitner Friedrich
Abstract
The complex opus of Bogdan Bogdanović (1922–2010), famous architect and builder of one of Europe’s most intriguing memory sites of the twentieth century, can be understood by a variety of different approaches. The interpretation of numerous memorials of this
enfant terrible of Serbian and Yugoslav culture and politics, by Friedrich Achleitner, offers
an interesting answer to the questions of their poetic, artistic and architectural features, as he ventures on a rather uncertain voyage of formal and poetical commentaries on Bogdanović’s memorials, bot in words and photographs. Nevertheless, whilst describing Bogdanović’s highly metaphorical and ambiguous ways of memorializing war victims by means of gigantic earthworks and sculptural remodelling of the natural landscape, Achleitner offers only a glimpse of the complicated cultural and historical landscape of socialist Yugoslavia.
Keywords:
Bogdan Bogdanović / Yugoslavia / War memorials / Landscape art / Modern architecture / Modern sculpture / SocialismSource:
Slavonic and Eastern European Review, 2014, 92, 4, 758-760Publisher:
- London: Modern Humanities Research Association
- School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
Funding / projects:
- The 20th century Serbian art: the national and Europe (RS-MESTD-Basic Research (BR or ON)-177013)
Institution/Community
Arhitektonski fakultetTY - JOUR AU - Ignjatović, Aleksandar PY - 2014 UR - https://raf.arh.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/817 AB - The complex opus of Bogdan Bogdanović (1922–2010), famous architect and builder of one of Europe’s most intriguing memory sites of the twentieth century, can be understood by a variety of different approaches. The interpretation of numerous memorials of this enfant terrible of Serbian and Yugoslav culture and politics, by Friedrich Achleitner, offers an interesting answer to the questions of their poetic, artistic and architectural features, as he ventures on a rather uncertain voyage of formal and poetical commentaries on Bogdanović’s memorials, bot in words and photographs. Nevertheless, whilst describing Bogdanović’s highly metaphorical and ambiguous ways of memorializing war victims by means of gigantic earthworks and sculptural remodelling of the natural landscape, Achleitner offers only a glimpse of the complicated cultural and historical landscape of socialist Yugoslavia. PB - London: Modern Humanities Research Association PB - School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London T2 - Slavonic and Eastern European Review T1 - A Flower for the Dead: The Memorials of Bogdan Bogdanović, Achleitner Friedrich VL - 92 IS - 4 SP - 758 EP - 760 DO - 10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.92.4.0758 ER -
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Ignjatović, A.. (2014). A Flower for the Dead: The Memorials of Bogdan Bogdanović, Achleitner Friedrich. in Slavonic and Eastern European Review London: Modern Humanities Research Association., 92(4), 758-760. https://doi.org/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.92.4.0758
Ignjatović A. A Flower for the Dead: The Memorials of Bogdan Bogdanović, Achleitner Friedrich. in Slavonic and Eastern European Review. 2014;92(4):758-760. doi:10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.92.4.0758 .
Ignjatović, Aleksandar, "A Flower for the Dead: The Memorials of Bogdan Bogdanović, Achleitner Friedrich" in Slavonic and Eastern European Review, 92, no. 4 (2014):758-760, https://doi.org/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.92.4.0758 . .