Huge Soviet-era monument taken down in Kyiv as Ukraine continues 'derussification' #TheArtNewspaper
“A Soviet-era monument believed to glorify Ukraine’s ties to Russia is being dismantled on orders of the Kyiv city government in the latest stage of derussification following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Kyiv’s Department of Territorial Control announced the start of the monument’s removal in a Facebook post on 30 April, stressing its massive size: “The sculptural composition is large, consists of about 20 elements weighing between 6,000kg and 7,000kg each. Due to the complexity of the design, dismantling may take a few days.””
"'We are dealing with fundamentalist rightwingers’: Berlin statues are latest battleground in Germany’s culture wars" by Philip Oltermann (#TheGuardian)
"Silently towering into the grey Berlin sky, the latest addition to the German capital’s skyline is easily missed by passengers passing along the Unter den Linden boulevard below. Eight statues of Old Testament prophets, each more than 3 metres tall and weighing 3 tonnes, were installed last week in a circular formation around the cupola of the palace in the centre of the metropolis."
“It appears that we are dealing with a targeted infiltration of the Berlin palace by fundamentalist rightwingers who want to turn it into symbol of a Christian and thereby ‘white’ ethnic Germany,” said Jürgen Zimmerer."
738 years ago today. King Alexander III died in a fall from his horse near Kinghorn in Fife on 19 March 1286. His death ended a golden age in Scottish history and caused a crisis of succession that led to the Wars of Independence with England. This is the monument built near where he died. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/kinghorn/kinghorn/index.html
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Plans Approved For Statue Of MOTÖRHEAD Frontman LEMMY In His U.K. Birthplace
According to BBC News, plans to erect a statue of MOTÖRHEAD frontman Lemmy in the town where he was born have been approved. Lemmy was born Ian Kilmister in Burslem, one of the towns that is part of the city of Stoke-On-Trent in Staffordshire, before he and his family moved to Newcastle-under-Lyme....
Zeitenlik is an Allied military cemetery and World War I memorial park in Thessaloniki, the largest military cemetery in Greece. Pictured here is the Serbian part of the cemetery, designed by Aleksandar Vasić.
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New at my Patreon... Travelling on the Indian Pacific train through the locality of Ooldea, I managed to snap a photo of a monument to a great rail achievement:
Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA; traditional territory of the Báxoje Máyaⁿ (Ioway), Umoⁿhoⁿ (Omaha), and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ nations / Explore more at https://bit.ly/LewisAndClarkMonument_2022-11-26
Palais de justice historique à #Lyon, dit aussi palais des 24 #colonnes.
Construit entre 1835 et 1847 par Louis-Pierre #Baltard, il abrite un décor classé #MonumentHistorique
Les merveilleux albums de #plans sont conservés aux #Archives du département du #Rhône et de la #Métropole de Lyon, où j'ai eu la chance de les étudier lors de la #rénovation du palais.
Mai 2023
La #statue de Jeanne d'Arc qui couronne le #monument aux morts d'un #village. Un village, oui, mais pas n'importe lequel : il s'agit de #Poil, commune de la #Nièvre située dans le sud du #Morvan.
Et maintenant, vous pourrez dire que vous avez vu Jeanne d'Arc à Poil 😉 😅
Chelyabinsk city. The monument «Skaz ob Urale» that means «A fairy tale of Ural». Grey-haired Ural, a giant with a hammer is a personalisation of the region.
Piles de l'#aqueduc du #Gier dans une rue de Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon. C'était le plus long des quatre aqueducs à desservir en eau la ville #antique de #lugdunum.
"Colonial statues in post-colonial Africa: a multidimentional heritage" by Sophia Labadi (2023).
"Is history being destroyed when colonial statues are removed from public space? This paper has explained that history is often being made when they are removed. Indeed, the hidden motivations for the construction and/or upkeep of these statues can then be revealed, along with their entangled colonial or racist legacies. Besides, their removals can aid in rectifying history, exposing in some cases the Eurocentrism of public spaces, and European epistemic domination. Such removal makes space for the erection of memorials for local heroes, who might have played more significant roles than colonial or racist figures".
Sculptures that commemorate some historical figure (whether or not the person deserves some kind of public recognition) can be rejected for various reasons: use of economic resources (that could be used for something more useful) and change in the public's perception of that person. A person admired in the present may be rejected in the future for various reasons. A good example of such a change in appreciation is that of Pushkin's sculptures in Ukraine.
The top of the monument in Glasgow's Necropolis to the great Scottish hero William Wallace, commemorating his victory at the battle of the Bell o' the Brae (part of modern day High Street) in 1297 where Wallace's men routed the English garrison holding Glasgow Castle.