Zagreb as the Location of the “New Tendencies” International Art Movement (1961–73)

Within the narrative of life in the former Communist Bloc, socialist Yugoslavia was (and still is) always represented as “something else,” as a country with a relatively liberal lifestyle, open borders, free circulation of people, and an intensive cultural exchange with the world. Yugoslavia’s “auth...

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Published inArt beyond Borders p. 311
Main Author Ljilana Kolesnik
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Central European University Press 29.02.2016
EditionNED - New edition, 1
Subjects
Abstract art
Aesthetic objects
Aesthetics
Anthropology
Art exhibitions
Art genres and movements
Art history
Art objects
Art periods
Arts
Arts participation
Axiology
Behavioral sciences
Communism
Computer art
Ethnography
Ethnology
European studies
Modern art
Modernist art
New media art
Philosophy
Political ideologies
Political philosophy
Political science
Slavic culture
Slavic studies
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Summary:Within the narrative of life in the former Communist Bloc, socialist Yugoslavia was (and still is) always represented as “something else,” as a country with a relatively liberal lifestyle, open borders, free circulation of people, and an intensive cultural exchange with the world. Yugoslavia’s “authentic path to socialism”—a political project produced by a complex combination of historical circumstances marking the beginning of the Cold War—unquestionably belonged within the framework of communist ideology, but its approach was one of greater flexibility and an understanding of socialism as an essentially modern, experimental social model that has to be constantly adapted
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