Publicomos

Notice (permalien)

Réf.

41369

Type

conference item

Titre

Changed functions, changed places : some aspects of the impact of history on the destiny of monuments in Hungary in the 20th century

Langues

English

Auteurs

Varsa-Szekeres, Vera

Date

2008

Pages

7 p.

Titre de conférence

16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’

Lieu de conférence

Québec, Canada

Date de conférence

29 sept – 4 oct 2008

Mots-clés

historic monuments / conservation / restoration / religious architecture / memorials / history / historical surveys / conservation of historic monuments / intangible heritage

Pays mentionnés

Hungary

Résumé en anglais

’Ours is a draughty country’ we used to hint at the vicissitudes of Hungary in a semi-jokingly way. In this paper I am going to highlight the ’life-line’ of different groups of monuments (protected or having only symbolic meaning). Hungary underwent several drastic changes in thepast „short century”, i.e. 1914-1989, from the outbreak of WWI. to the collapse of so-called socialism. There is a group that changed both place and significance, that of the statues erected to glorify communism and its Soviet and Hungarian heroes. The majority of them were taken to a place called ’Statue-park’. The park reflects our history andour attitude toward it. Another group of buildings are synagogues, abandoned because of well-known consequence of the Nazi rule and re-used. This way some were objectified, some kept as memento in a ramifying context.

Document joint

77-5mq5-152.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)