The New Art Practice in Yugoslavia 1966-1978, 1978
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print on paper
29,6 × 21 cm
edited by Marijan Susovski
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
273 pages
“The New Art Practice in Yugoslavia” is one of the first books to deal with the conceptual tendencies that arose in Yugoslavia during the 1960s. A new generation of artists, born in the 1940s and ’50s, generated new artistic trends that differed from previous practices by virtue of their employment of new media technologies. The centers of these artists’ activities were Belgrade, Ljubljana, Novi Sad, Split, Subotica, and Zagreb. Most of their novel artistic approaches were established individually and subsequently nurtured through communication and exchange between cities and protagonists, thereby manifesting conceptual tendencies that reflected a leftist mode of dealing with society and politics and was in line with global developments, particularly in the 1970s. This book contains several comprehensive essays on artists and artist groups, most of whom are featured in the Kontakt collection. They include Bosch + Bosch, Goran Đorđević, Ladislav Galeta, Tomislav Gotovac, Group of Six Artists, Sanja Iveković, Julije Knifer, KÔD Group, Ivan Kožarić, Dalibor Martinis, OHO, Neša Paripović, Zoran Popović, Raša Todosijević, and Goran Trbuljak. W.S.
29,6 × 21 cm
edited by Marijan Susovski
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
273 pages
“The New Art Practice in Yugoslavia” is one of the first books to deal with the conceptual tendencies that arose in Yugoslavia during the 1960s. A new generation of artists, born in the 1940s and ’50s, generated new artistic trends that differed from previous practices by virtue of their employment of new media technologies. The centers of these artists’ activities were Belgrade, Ljubljana, Novi Sad, Split, Subotica, and Zagreb. Most of their novel artistic approaches were established individually and subsequently nurtured through communication and exchange between cities and protagonists, thereby manifesting conceptual tendencies that reflected a leftist mode of dealing with society and politics and was in line with global developments, particularly in the 1970s. This book contains several comprehensive essays on artists and artist groups, most of whom are featured in the Kontakt collection. They include Bosch + Bosch, Goran Đorđević, Ladislav Galeta, Tomislav Gotovac, Group of Six Artists, Sanja Iveković, Julije Knifer, KÔD Group, Ivan Kožarić, Dalibor Martinis, OHO, Neša Paripović, Zoran Popović, Raša Todosijević, and Goran Trbuljak. W.S.