The Form of the Monumental: Usage and Circulation in the Representation of the Second World War Deaths
The article analyzes the hypothesis of a transformation by circulating the form of monumental rather than his disappearance from a corpus of war memorials from World War II. If the monument is associated with the size, the strength, the imposing, we show that from the second half of the twentieth century, these features are still present despite being profoundly transformed. Four aspects are identified that often work in conjunction, through representation, in collective deaths due to wars: the passage of verticality to horizontality, burst fractures break from the monumental mass, the false disappearance of the monumental by his confinement underground and finally, the imaged projection of monumental.