SZTUKA W OTWARTEJ PRZESTRZENI PUBLICZNEJ I UPAMIĘTNIANIE OFIAR CYWILNYCH II WOJNY ŚWIATOWEJ – COVENTRY 1940–2015

• Authors: Taborska Halina

Title variants

ART IN OPEN PUBLIC SPACE AND COMMEMORATION OF VICTIMS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR – COVENTRY 1940–2015

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

The article presents commemorative works of public art in Coventry, dedicated to the civilian victims of the Second World War killed in aerial bombings carried out by the German air force, the Luftwaffe. Coventry, an important industrial city in the West Midlands, was largely destroyed in a devastating Blitz carpet bombing carried out on the night of 14/15 November 1940, during which the medieval Cathedral of St Michael was burned to the ground. The first part of the text is focused on the formation within its ruins of an open sacral plane, and on the works of contemporary art which were placed there between the years 1946–2012. This is followed, in the second part, by a presentation of an unusual installation, composed from free-standing corten steel walls, commemorating people who through the centuries lived on one street, Bayley Lane, which was completely destroyed in the November Blitz. Consecutively, the urban design and selected works of public art brought into the city centre in the XXI century have been considered, and the two works: „Future Monument” and „Public Bench” of the German artist Jochen Gerz scrutinised in detail. Gerz’s works were made in collaboration with the general public, and exemplify in this paper one of the strands of public art, designed and produced by artists in close consultation with members of their prospective mass audience.

Keywords

EN

Coventry; the Second World War; civilian population; public art; monuments; commemoration; revitalization

• Publisher: Polski Uniwersytet na Obczyźnie (PUNO) w Londynie
• Journal: Zeszyty Naukowe PUNO
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 25-38

Contributors

author

Taborska Halina

• Polski Uniwersytet na Obczyźnie (PUNO) w Londynie

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