TY - GEN N1 - 25 cm N2 - In the current text I describe the cultural contexts of selected monuments, concentrating on memorial sculptures with a male subject. I am not interested in monuments which stand entirely against the current of contemporary art, that is those which are monumental and consist of a statue on a plinth. Instead, I focus on memorial sculpture integrated into city life and on entirely non-monumental monuments: ones without plinths, growing straight from pavements and representing life-size men in natural poses. Such monuments demonstrate some leading thematic variants and formal conventions. The fundamental and most popular variant of their design is the statue of a man sitting on a bench, in a chair or an armchair, or standing in a relaxed pose on the pavement. Such sculptures are usually memorials of notable personages, although increasingly often they represent also “ordinary” people shown in natural poses and at everyday activities, which refer to the local history and local tales of the “commonplace”, daily life experiences of the area’s residents L1 - http://www.rcin.org.pl/iae/Content/54833/PDF/WA308_75282_P714_Pomniki-bez-cokolow_I.pdf M3 - Text J2 - Journal of Urban Ethnology 11 (2013) PY - 2013 EP - 116 KW - monuments KW - urban monuments KW - male sculptures KW - Lodz monuments KW - Poznan monuments KW - Warsaw monuments A1 - Karpińska, Grażyna Ewa PB - Instytut Archeolgoii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk VL - 11 CY - Warszawa SP - 105 T1 - Pomniki bez cokołów – realizacje przedstawiające mężczyzn UR - http://www.rcin.org.pl/iae/dlibra/publication/edition/54833 ER -