With its balletic grace and lack of triumphalism, it marks the great turning point of the war and represents the changing face of war memorials in recent years. But the Normandy memorial represents the beginning of a shift away from living memory and into a collective commemoration of the conflict as a whole. This is an indirect result of the process: war memorials, by and large, are privately funded and created. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A detail from Williams-Ellis’s D-day sculpture in the workshop. What seems undeniable is that this Normandy memorial could not be more relevant now.

Source: The Guardian June 06, 2019 08:22 UTC