In the text titled "Monuments, Modernism and the Public Space" authors Pam Meecham and Julie Sheldon explore how urbinisation affected monuments especially when they were used to beautify and signify an entire city's identity or history. In this text there are two main focal points in which the authors expand on and a look into todays monuments status. They firstly focus on how contrasting message-wise the socialist and democratic monuments are, even though they appear to be similar in form and appearance. Secondly, they explore how artists responded to urbinisation to the so called 'cultural centres' whilst remaining in the modernist aesthetic. Finally they conclude with todays post-modern approach to public monuments with virtual reality.
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Such an example is the statue of Alexander III which was brutally dismembered, however this signified the change in political power.8 Also in order to immortalise the new power, you would have had to create a new piece that was partially utopian and partially propaganda, this way the previous symbols would be replaced by newer ones better suited for the situation.9 Furthermore, in wider terms artists were trying to find ways to create more riskey ideas by expirementing with traditional art practices and also with avante-garde forms, thus creating a new type of monuments which were pluralistic in content and in form.10 Generally speaking large sculptural monuments were usually placed in town squares, always taking into consideration the message they wanted to send across symbolically and physically. For example, O'Connell Street has probably the most public monuments situated on it, compared to the rest of Dublin or even Ireland, this was done purposely due to the fact that city planners were aware of the volume of public that would pass through that particular street in a day as it still does up to this date. It is also very important to state that the …show more content…
They tried to create a piece that was tangeable for the public unlike when a monument is on a plinth 5 feet above the ground. The material they used to capture the details of the monument of Queen victoria was a theatrical foil called cinefoil, which is normally use for lighting in theatre, the reason they chose that was because they wanted a material that would be best suitable in retaining the form of the original sculpture.20 Moreover, with this material they could achieve retaining the narratives the works contained while also dismembering them and rearranging them to give a different meaning too. The story of the monument itself is rather interesting, taken down from in front of Leinster House in 1948, it was placed in storage at The Royal Hospital Kilmainham, where it was stripped from its stone base and its three cherubs that once sat on her feet.21 These actions can be compared to the removal of Stallins monument that I mentioned earlier, where one political regime gets replaced by another one, in this case British Royalism which was replaced by independence and Democracy. One difference however would have to be the fact that the statue of Queen Victoria was later moved to Sydney were stands up until this day.22 Additionally, the fact that the two artists tried to find a new way of expressing
Such an example is the statue of Alexander III which was brutally dismembered, however this signified the change in political power.8 Also in order to immortalise the new power, you would have had to create a new piece that was partially utopian and partially propaganda, this way the previous symbols would be replaced by newer ones better suited for the situation.9 Furthermore, in wider terms artists were trying to find ways to create more riskey ideas by expirementing with traditional art practices and also with avante-garde forms, thus creating a new type of monuments which were pluralistic in content and in form.10 Generally speaking large sculptural monuments were usually placed in town squares, always taking into consideration the message they wanted to send across symbolically and physically. For example, O'Connell Street has probably the most public monuments situated on it, compared to the rest of Dublin or even Ireland, this was done purposely due to the fact that city planners were aware of the volume of public that would pass through that particular street in a day as it still does up to this date. It is also very important to state that the …show more content…
They tried to create a piece that was tangeable for the public unlike when a monument is on a plinth 5 feet above the ground. The material they used to capture the details of the monument of Queen victoria was a theatrical foil called cinefoil, which is normally use for lighting in theatre, the reason they chose that was because they wanted a material that would be best suitable in retaining the form of the original sculpture.20 Moreover, with this material they could achieve retaining the narratives the works contained while also dismembering them and rearranging them to give a different meaning too. The story of the monument itself is rather interesting, taken down from in front of Leinster House in 1948, it was placed in storage at The Royal Hospital Kilmainham, where it was stripped from its stone base and its three cherubs that once sat on her feet.21 These actions can be compared to the removal of Stallins monument that I mentioned earlier, where one political regime gets replaced by another one, in this case British Royalism which was replaced by independence and Democracy. One difference however would have to be the fact that the statue of Queen Victoria was later moved to Sydney were stands up until this day.22 Additionally, the fact that the two artists tried to find a new way of expressing