title: A Modernist Memorial for a Classical City: Designs for the Memorial to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad as Seen by Architects and Audience
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metadata.value: Bass, Vadim G.
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metadata.value: 2021-10-12T13:20:26Z
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metadata.value: 2021-10-12T13:20:26Z
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metadata.value: 2021-09
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metadata.value: Bass, Vadim. “A Modernist Memorial for a Classical City: Designs for the Memorial to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad as Seen by Architects and Audience”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 11, no. 3 (2021): 555–567.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2021.310
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33286
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metadata.value: The article discusses practices of architectural commemoration of the most tragic event in the
  history of St. Petersburg — Leningrad, the siege. Architects started producing projects for the future
  memorials in the first months of the unprecedented blockade of the city. During the postwar
  period some impressive monuments were erected, including one at the Piskarevskoe Memorial
  Cemetery. There were also dozens of designs submitted to several architectural competitions
  during the 1950–60s. In the 1960s, Leningrad went through two open architectural competitions
  for the memorial dedicated to the defenders of the city in the Second World War. The designs
  were widely publicized, provoking public response going far beyond Soviet standards of freedom
  of expression in discussing the tragic past. Building on a considerable body of archival materials,
  the article examines the history of the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad
  and the shaping of its architectural language. Simultaneously, it analyzes some commonalities
  of “memorial discourse” reflected in feedback texts. The critical responses demonstrate various
  attitudes towards the contemporary (late modern) architectural characteristic of the majority
  of competition entries and various visions of its appropriateness for the commemoration of the
  Siege. Eventually erected in 1975, the monument turned out to be a compromise between the
  architects’ and laymen’s visions, between the highly modernist style fashioned by the architects
  and the expectations of the audience that was skeptical about “Western modernism” and “abstraction”
  and demanded a narrative memorial with figurative sculpture.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 11; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Memorial to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet memorials
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metadata.value: commemoration of the siege of Leningrad
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metadata.value: monument
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: war memorial
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metadata.value: memorial architecture
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: A Modernist Memorial for a Classical City: Designs for the Memorial to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad as Seen by Architects and Audience
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metadata.value: Article
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