{"id":1509,"date":"2007-02-21T00:45:30","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T00:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2008-07-18T17:49:06","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T16:49:06","slug":"dead-monuments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/02\/21\/dead-monuments\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead monuments"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anyone who’s seen a Soviet film from 1947 onwards will recognise the logo of the Mosfilm studio which featured a model of Vera Mukhina’s Worker and Kolkhoz Woman<\/em> monument. This 24-metre tall steel-plate statue proved surplus to requirements after the collapse of the old order, like so many monuments of that period. English Russia<\/a> has a series of moody photographs of the structure lying in pieces whilst being dismantled.<\/p>\n

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Poor Vera, who died in 1953, must have thought her work would last a very long time; these pictures are a poignant reminder of the ephemeral nature, not only of art, but of whole ideologies. They’re also reminiscent of the deliberately degraded sculptures made by Igor Mitoraj<\/a> (below) which trade for their effect on exactly this disjunction between delusions of permanence and the ravages of history.<\/p>\n

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And on these Flickr pages<\/a> you can see one of Mitoraj’s influences from a ravaged past, the fragments of the Colossal Statue of Constantine in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The Stalker meme<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Igor Mitoraj<\/a>
\n\u2022 Enormous structures II: Tatlin’s Tower<\/a>
\n\u2022 Solaris<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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