A Relic of Communism, an Architectural Nightmare or a Determinant of the City’s Brand? Media, Political and Architectural Dispute over the Monument to the Revolutionary Act in Rzeszów (Poland)

This article deals with the issues of architectural elements public space, treated as components art and visual communication, at same time determinants emotional aspects political conflicts, social disputes, media discourse. The aim considerations is to show, usage principles critical analysis discourse, impact events, activity mass communicators on perception monument historical memory changes that take place within its evaluation. authors chose method discourse due compliance planned purpose analyses, thus, providing opportunity perform qualitative research, enabling creation possibly up-to-date conclusions regarding both studied thread, allowing extrapolation certain other examples. material relating controversial Monument Revolutionary Act, located in city Rzeszów (Poland), was selected for analysis. On this example, an attempt made evaluate mutual relations between politically engaged architecture art, contemporary consequences involvement dimension.