CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/22/2018

What is it about 'Spomenik Monument Database'?

It's hard to pin down just one thing that makes Spomenik Monument Database—FUEL Publishing's super-portable new guidebook to the wild world of communist memorial minimalism in Tito's Yugoslavia—so exciting. Is it the great design? The thorough research? The deluxe, double-printed French-folded cover that opens up to a graphic map featuring every monument listed inside? The strange archival photos, or the beautiful new ones? It's a fact that each turn of the page reveals a monument even more interesting than the one before. Featured here is Mitrovica in Kosovo by Bogdan Bogdanovic. Completed in 1973 and measuring more than 60 feet high, it is both a shrine to the Revolution and a monument to fallen miners.