Miejsca pamięci. Tablice i monolity Karola Tchorka
Memory Sites. Plaques and Monoliths by Karol Tchorek

Summary/Abstract: Attempts at making inventories of, and documenting National Memory Sites, so characteristic for the iconosphere of Warsaw, have been undertaken upon numerous occasions. The outcome of those endeavours in correlation to the examined material in archival collections distinctly indicates gaps, errors, or restrictions of the range to photographic inventories or limiting the list to a concrete period (e.g. the Warsaw Uprising). The project presented by the author of this article produced a complete record and registration of plaques and monoliths designed by the sculptor Karol Tchorek and commemorating the history of the town during the tragic events of the last war. The accumulated material basis: photographic documentation, assessment of the technical state, and an orderly arrangement of data upon the basis of archival documents will, hopefully, enable a graphic study and the issuing of a publication – a map of Warsaw showing the background of events in the form of a guidebook to Memory Sites. The documentation and outcome of the project were entrusted to the Tchorek-Bentall Foundation, which, in accordance with its Statute, is the guardian of the artistic bequest of Karol Tchorek.

• Details
• Contents