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During the 1960s and 70s, thousands of monuments commemorating the Second World War ż called 'Spomeniks' ż 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.

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Book category Books in English The arts Art treatments & subjects Individual artists, art monographs

• Full title: Jan Kempemaers
• Author: W J Neutelings
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 64
• EAN: 9789077459508
• ISBN: 9077459502
• ID: 04468072
• Publisher: MENO
• Weight: 876 g
• Dimensions: 331 × 253 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 2010

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