Open AccessBETWEEN REAL AND SYMBOLIC SPACE. DEATH REPRESENTATION IN WIKTOR TOŁKIN’S MARTYROLOGY MONUMENTS
Author(s) -
Magdalena Howorus-Czajka
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
muzealnictwo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2391-4815
pISSN - 0464-1086
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0015.0031
Subject(s) - exhibition , representation (politics) , art , the symbolic , space (punctuation) , visual arts , the holocaust , art history , politics , linguistics , philosophy , law , theology , psychology , political science , psychoanalysis
It is the representation of death in the monumentsby Wiktor Tołkin found at the former concentrationcamps: Stutthof (at Sztutowo) and Majdanek (in Lublin)that is discussed. As an art historian, the Author confrontsTołkin’s monuments with the theorical framework relatedto the aesthetics of death representations in martyrologymuseums. The monuments were created in the late 1960s.The Author has studied how the monuments coincide withthe contemporary exhibition strategies used in Holocaust-dedicated museums.