REPRESENTATION AND IDENTITY PROBLEM OF MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE IN TURKEY Cover Image

TÜRKİYE’DE ANIT HEYKELİN TEMSİL VE KİMLİK SORUNU
REPRESENTATION AND IDENTITY PROBLEM OF MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE IN TURKEY

Author(s): Nihat Sezer Sabahat
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Visual Arts, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Sanat ve Dil Araştırmaları Enstitüsü
Keywords: Monument; public space; representation;

Summary/Abstract: Monuments and squares meet wide range of presence in public spaces. They represent the political power and carry a role as an intermediary which transfers the messages to the public. The use of monuments, artworks and themes have become an indispensable tool for all civilizations to describe the establishment of past-future relationships, and how social values are being built or tried to be sought. In this context, the tradition of utilizing from monuments and memorial sculptures is very old. This paper focuses on the effects of the Republican period monument sculptures on the public, in terms of form, content and symbolic aspect, as well as the relation of the republican monuments with the squares, and their effects on official and informal ideologies are addressed in a few examples.

  • Issue Year: 6/2017
  • Issue No: 31
  • Page Range: 953-966
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Turkish