ACCORDING TO WAR & DEATH CONCEPT MEMORY’S PLACES: THE PENISULA OF GELIBOLU, PARK OF THARGA JIU, VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL Cover Image

SAVAŞ VE ÖLÜM OLGULARI BAĞLAMINDA ANMA MEKÂNLARI: GELİBOLU YARIMADASI, TİRGU JİU PARKI, VİETNAM GAZİLERİ ANITI
ACCORDING TO WAR & DEATH CONCEPT MEMORY’S PLACES: THE PENISULA OF GELIBOLU, PARK OF THARGA JIU, VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL

Author(s): Nevzat Atalay
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Visual Arts, Military history
Published by: Sanat ve Dil Araştırmaları Enstitüsü
Keywords: memory; spaces; war; Gelibolu; Tirgu Jiu; Vietnam; Maya Lin; sculpture; monument;

Summary/Abstract: Human beings lives with the knowledge of their time is limited. Overcoming time means also that overcoming the death. While reproduce is the primitive way of showing the existence between time, human being with the same instinct take the risk of death to be a part of the history. History of the humanity is also means that the history of wars. The faith of the humanity is expended with death and it become meaningful with `producing`. In this `producing` concept, art has a unique and special position. In many art pieces from different disciplines shows the culture and the knowledge of the time that they created. In the last century, the world has different and experiences with different world wars, humanity carried the changed borders, regimes, wars and definitions through art to the present time. This paper is providing an understanding of death, memory and war through three memory spaces from three different countries. One from Turkey, Gallipoli, the second one from Romania Tirgu Jiu Park that created by sculptor Brancusi and the last one from Washington, Vietnam anusitis that created by Maya Lin.

  • Issue Year: 7/2018
  • Issue No: 52
  • Page Range: 1499-1505
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Turkish