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

Jakovljevic, Branislav

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0472073141 ISBN 13 : 9780472073146

Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2016

Synopsis

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 thatthe 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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À propos de l?auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Michigan Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0472073141
• ISBN 13: 9780472073146
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 382
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible