Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91 - Rilegato

Jakovljevic, Branislav

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ISBN 10: 0472073141 ISBN 13: 9780472073146

Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2016

Riassunto

In the 1970s, Yugoslavia emerged as a dynamic environment for conceptual and performance art. At the same time, it pursued its own form of political economy of socialist self-management. Alienation Effects argues that a deep relationship existed between the democratization of the arts and industrial democracy, resulting in a culture difficult to classify. The book challenges the assumption that the art emerging in Eastern Europe before 1989 was either &;official&; or &;dissident&; art; and shows that the break up of Yugoslavia was not a result of &;ancient hatreds&; among its peoples but instead came from the distortion and defeat of the idea of self-management.

The case studies include mass performances organized during state holidays; proto-performance art, such as the 1954 production of Waiting for Godot in a former concentration camp in Belgrade; student demonstrations in 1968; and body art pieces by Gina Pane, Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovic, and others. Alienation Effects sheds new light on the work of well-known artists and scholars, including early experimental poetry by Slavoj Žižek, as well as performance and conceptual artists that deserve wider, international attention.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Branislav Jakovljevic is Associate Professor in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Univ of Michigan Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0472073141
• ISBN 13: 9780472073146
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 369
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile