Sunday, April 24, 2011

Josip Broz Tito's Unusual Art Legacy

Tito's iron hand on the former Yugoslavia left behind more than the usual brutal and bloody Communist legacy.

Crack Two has a gorgeous posting of 25 or so of these rather futuristic public art works done in the 1960s and 1970s. Check them all out here.

Update:
The key site to learn more about these brutal massive sculptures is this one.

2 comments:

Rogerrr said...

wow...too bad we didn't have a Yugoslavian sculptor design our WWII memorial

awesome stuff!

Anonymous said...

Great feature on these at http://www.ascmag.com/blog/2011/02/28/spomenik%E2%80%94jan-kempenaers-and-%E2%80%9Cthe-end-of-history%E2%80%9D/