spomenikとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

spomenik (plural spomeniks)

1. (architecture, uncommon) A monument erected in former Yugoslavia to commemorate World War II.
   • 2013 June 18, Joshua Surtees, “Spomeniks: the second world war memorials that look like alien art”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 3 February 2018:

     A moody punter is standing in front of Jan Kempenaers's photograph Spomenik #11 at the Breese-Little gallery in Clerkenwell, London, giving his opinion to anybody who will listen. […] With the help of a friend from Zagreb, he found a map showing the locations of all the monuments and painstakingly sought them out, discovering while doing so that most of the thousands of Spomeniks had been deliberately destroyed.

   • 2025, Gregory Marinic, Pablo Meninato, editors, About Streets: Perspectives on Urbanism, Architecture, and Placemaking, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 237:

     The most elaborate spomeniks were abstract, monumental environments designed by prominent sculptors and architects including Drago Tršar, Vojin Bakić, Dušan Džamonja, and Bogdan Bogdanović.

Further reading

• World War II monuments and memorials in Yugoslavia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia