Мостарско спомен гробље у опусу архитекте Богдана Богдановића: Театрон и његове романтичарске реминисценције
Mostar Memorial Cemetery in the Oeuvre of Architect Bogdan Bogdanović ‒ The Theatron and Its Romantic Reminiscences

Summary/Abstract: The co-existence of gnostic, archetypal, and romantic allegory in the “system of mythological explication as symbology” in the oeuvre of Bogdan Bogdanović is a largely ignored topic when the works of Bogdanović’s monumental architecture are valued. When the mythological explanation is viewed inductively – as a generic principle based on the metonymic centripetal substitution of both victims and events – an allegorical image of the Manichaean-Sufic terra lucida is formed, which like simulacrum imitates the archetype itself thus transposing a mythologeme into a philosopheme. The mythic content presents the thanatopolis of Mostar as the very symbol of the city of the living. Hence, the Mostar necropolis explains in detail all the degrees of gradation of the mythological explication of symbols. Based on the formal features of the Mostar necropolis as the most complex iconological project of its author, this work aims to roughly present the relationship between formal and spatial concepts as a prerequisite for understanding its iconological content. Explication of the tripartite division in the relation of initiatory-anagogic and anamnestic content reflects the structure of the anti-modernist simulation of mythic non-reflective consciousness. It is inaugurated in the anagogic-kinetic mediation of Manichaean cosmogony, which, becoming a moment of reflexive and kinetically mediated, internalizes its content in the reflection of anamnesis thus becoming a perceptive memory.

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