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Author Videkanić, Bojana, 1977- author

Title Nonaligned modernism : socialist postcolonial aesthetics in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985 / Bojana Videkanić
Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 302 pages) : illustrations
Contents From Socialist Realism to Yugoslav Alternative Aesthetic, 1945-1954 -- Coexistence, Cultural Diplomacy, and the Ascent of Socialist Modernism -- Nonaligned Modernism in the Making: Building Parallel Transnational Culture -- The Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts: Articulating Nonaligned Modernism
Summary "In less than half a century, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia successfully defeated Fascist occupation, fended off dominating pressures from the Eastern and Western blocs, built a modern society on the ashes of war, created its own form of socialism, and led the formation of the Nonaligned Movement. This country's principles and its continued battles, fought against all odds, provided the basis for dynamic and exceptional forms of art. Drawing on archival materials, postcolonial theory, and Eastern European socialist studies, Nonaligned Modernism chronicles the emergence of late modernist artistic practices in Yugoslavia from the end of the Second World War to the mid-1980s. Situating Yugoslav modernism within postcolonial artistic movements of the twentieth century, Bojana Videkanić explores how cultural workers collaborated with others from the Global South to create alternative artistic and cultural networks that countered Western hegemony. Videkanić focuses primarily on art exhibitions along with examples of international cultural exchange to demonstrate that nonaligned art wove together politics and aesthetics, and indigenous, Western, and global influences. An interdisciplinary book, Nonaligned Modernism highlights Yugoslavia's key role in the creation of a global modernist ethos and international postcolonial culture."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 10, 2020)
Subject Art, Yugoslav -- 20th century
Modernism (Art) -- Yugoslavia
Art -- Political aspects -- Yugoslavia -- History -- 20th century
Aesthetics, Yugoslav -- 20th century
Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Yugoslavia
Aesthetics -- Political aspects -- Yugoslavia -- History -- 20th century
Nonalignment -- Yugoslavia -- History -- 20th century
ART -- History -- Contemporary (1945- )
Aesthetics -- Political aspects
Aesthetics, Yugoslav
Art -- Political aspects
Art, Yugoslav
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Modernism (Art)
Nonalignment
Yugoslavia
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019394545
ISBN 9780228000563
0228000564
Other Titles Socialist postcolonial aesthetics in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985