Sica, Beatrice;
(2025)
Who's on the Pedestal? Equestrian Monuments through the Eyes of French Surrealists and Italian Cartoonists in the 1930s.
CoSMo (Comparative Studies in Modernism)
, 27
pp. 187-212.
10.13135/2281-6658/13101.
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Abstract
This essay explores how equestrian monuments were imaginatively contested in the 1930s by French Surrealists and Italian cartoonists. While Surrealist interventions relied on automatism and chance, Italian cartoons followed the principles of satire and turned the basic rules of constructing monuments upside down; yet both strategies achieved similar effects: they dismantled habitual thinking about monuments and questioned who deserves to be commemorated, how, and why. By comparing these practices, the essay highlights the role of humor and imagination in destabilizing authoritarian narratives and revisiting the cultural significance of public statuary.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Who's on the Pedestal? Equestrian Monuments through the Eyes of French Surrealists and Italian Cartoonists in the 1930s |
| Location: | Italy |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.13135/2281-6658/13101 |
| Publisher version: | https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO/issue/view/96... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Gli autori mantengono i diritti sulla loro opera e cedono alla rivista il diritto di prima pubblicazione dell'opera, contemporaneamente licenziata sotto una Licenza Creative Commons - Attribuzione che permette ad altri di condividere l'opera indicando la paternità intellettuale e la prima pubblicazione su questa rivista. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
| Keywords: | Surrealism, statues, fascism, Bertoldo, satire |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10220024 |
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