Monument to the Revolution (Kozara)

Monument to the Revolution
Serbo-Croatian: Spomenik Revoluciji
Artist Dušan Džamonja
Year 1972 (1972)
Type Sculpture
Dimensions 33 m (1,300 in)
Location Mrakovica, Kozara
Coordinates 45/00/45/N 16/54/40/E

Monument to the Revolution (Serbo-Croatian: Spomenik Revoluciji) is a World War II memorial sculpture by Dušan Džamonja, located at Mrakovica, one of the highest peaks of Kozara mountain, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is dedicated to the fierce battle and 2.500 Yugoslav partisan fighters and 68.500 mostly Serb civilians killed or deported in Ustaše concentration camps during German-Ustaše-Hungarian Kozara Offensive from June to July 1942.

Initiative for the Monument construction began in 1969 and Dušan Džamonja won the first prize for his project. Construction of the monument was completed in 1972.

Džamonja himself described the Monument as the game of light and darkness; this cylindrical-shaped Monument is composed of twenty vertical segments and every of them is characterized by deep steel-covered bulges (positives) and hollows (negatives). While negatives symbolize death, positives represent victory and life. Horizontally sited concrete blocs are the symbols of enemy forces who are trying to destroy life and victory but are unsuccessful.[1]

Other parts of the memorial complex are the Museum and the Memorial wall with the names of 9.921 Yugoslav partisans killed in fightings on Kozara during the World War II in Yugoslavia.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ Giulio Carlo Argan. Džamonja. Zagreb: Mladost, 1981, p. 85
  2. ↑ Kozara National Park: Cultural Heritage, accessed 7-8-2014

Coordinates: 45°00′45″N 16°54′40″E / 45.01250°N 16.91111°E / 45.01250; 16.91111

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