Markiranje revolucionarnog toposa i retorika Spomenika pobede na Sutjesci Miodraga Živkovića
Marking of the revolutionary topos and rhetoric of the Victory Monument at Sutjeska by Miodrag Živković

Summary/Abstract: The erection of the Victory Monument at Sutjeska, the central and most prestigious war memorial in Yugoslavia, took almost a decade 1962-1971. Victory Monument at Sutjeska once was a commemorative monument of the antifascist struggle in World War II and a masterpiece by a prominent author, Miodrag Živković, professor of sculpture at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. “The past decade has seen the emergence of the entire new photographic genre that focuses on the mesmerizing forms of late socialist architecture, of which Yugoslav monuments are just one small segment,” said Vladimir Kulić, historian of architecture. The abstract vocabulary of the memorial sculpture allows the appropriation of meaning that avoids some original ideological and political messages. Victory Monument at Sutjeska erected by Miodrag Živković has lost the propaganda shape of the political power of Tito’s Yugoslavia but can participate in constructing a new popular culture of photography and video music production.

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