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Agresiunea asupra monumentelor de for public în anii ’50
Assault on Public Monuments in the Fifties

Author(s): Nicolae Anderco, Aurel Duţu
Subject(s): Cultural history, Museology & Heritage Studies, Political history, Studies in violence and power, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: 50s; heritage; monuments; assault; destruction; communism;

Summary/Abstract: The late authors present a list of destroyed or still in place statues that once decorated streets and squares of Bucharest, many of these being important masterpieces. The communist regime decided that those of the monuments that were no more on ideological ‘line’ should be demolished and replaced by an art showing the new socialist realities. The article contents some evaluation of the historical figures represented by the monuments and their chances to be or not integrated in the new public historical image.

  • Issue Year: IX/2001
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 123-130
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian