Item Summary

The illustration series Father’s War seeks to trace the relationship between personal memory and national narrative, asking why this particular family story was never integrated into the grand spectacle of state-sanctioned remembrance: parades, monuments, and official commemorations.

Access to familial memory is mediated through modest artifacts: photographs of the artist’s father during his military service and a certificate bearing spelling errors in his patronymic. They reveal overlooked dimensions of wartime experience, daily routines, leisure, and camaraderie among soldiers.

The artist’s father served at the Brest Fortress before the construction of its memorial complex and its transformation into a symbol of Soviet heroism.

Descriptive Information

Title
Father's War - 1-12
Sort Title
father's war - 1-12
Creator of work
Liankevich, Andrei
Language
Belarusian
English
Date Created
2013
Format
Photographs
Series
Goodbye, Motherland
Rights Statement
In Copyright

Discovery Information

Subject
Arts and culture
Photography
Gender and sexuality
Family
History
Local history
Politics and government
World War, 1939-1945
Geographic Subject
Belarus
Geographic Origin
Belarus

Physical Characteristics

Height
70
Width
100
Page Count
12
File Count
12

Institutional Information

Collection
The photography of Andrei Liankevich
Box number
Digital box #1
Folder number
396-407
Barcode
00000000000000
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/ephemera_folders/2c56897d-fb8e-47b9-a763-36c73740396a/manifest