Abandoned Yugoslavian Monuments

Check out these awesome concrete monuments in Yugoslavia. Most of them look like they could be used on Pink Floyd* covers.

Update: perhaps the link above borrowed its images from here.

* - or any 70's prog rock group, for that matter.

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5 thoughts on “Abandoned Yugoslavian Monuments

  1. Cris

    Those are astounding. It makes me yearn for a public culture that values spending resources on art.

    The abstractness (and the shape of this one) reminds me of Stonehenge. Imagine the fantastic significance future mystics will try to impose on these Yugoslavian monuments if they survive for a thousand years!

    Also, too, the comments on the cracktwo post are brutal. The original post title called them “Soviet” monuments and the hordes did not take kindly to this error.

  2. cleek

    i like how the pictures make most of the monuments look like they’re just sitting out in the middle of a field: not in a park or a designated space, just out in the countryside somewhere. remnants of some long-disappeared civilization, like the giant statues that litter the landscape in the Lord Of The Rings movies.

  3. Mike Mundy

    Somehow, another BJ plug.

    And I, coming in late, am buried way down in the comments as I vainly try to self-promote the mikereport.

  4. PanurgeATL

    Thing is, reinforced concrete may last, but not *that* long, I don’t think. And besides, someone commenting on the ascmag.com article pointed out that “you can’t build Paradise out of concrete”. I like many of these, though I understand the critique the article makes. Beyond that, why don’t we have a new conception of THE FUTURE by now? Why do these monuments still seem “futuristic”? What’s happened to us, even the supposedly progressive among us, that we (“we” meaning “the rest of you”, of course) :-P seem to have lost faith in such things?

  5. cleek

    seems the future’s just going to be better versions of Facebook, Twitter and iPhone. not really much for artists to get excited about, these days.

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