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... more
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 Videkanic explores how cultural workers collaborated with others from the Global South to create alternative artistic and cultural networks that countered Western hegemony. Videkanic 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.
Povodom 60 godina od Prve konferencije Pokreta nesvrstanih, održane u Beogradu 1961. godine, Muzej Jugoslavije pripremio je izložbu i prateći katalog koji stavljaju u fokus odnose Jugoslavije i Indije u oblasti umetnosti i kulture, kao i... more
Povodom 60 godina od Prve konferencije Pokreta nesvrstanih, održane u Beogradu 1961. godine, Muzej Jugoslavije pripremio je izložbu i prateći katalog koji stavljaju u fokus odnose Jugoslavije i Indije u oblasti umetnosti i kulture, kao i stvaralaštvo Petra Lubarde, jednog od najznačajnijih jugoslovenskih slikara, koga izdvajamo kao paradigmatičan primer modernizma kojim se Jugoslavija predstavila Nesvrstanima, a na koga je višemesečni boravak u Indiji 1963. godine imao veliki uticaj.
The occasion for the exhibition and accompanying catalogue is to mark the 60 years that have passed since the First Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement took place in Belgrade in 1961. The exhibition itself focuses on relations between Yugoslavia and India in the fields of art and culture, as well as the work of Petar Lubarda, one of the most important Yugoslav painters. We single out Lubarda, on whom the stay in India in 1963 had great influence, as a paradigmatic example of Modernism; through which Yugoslavia presented itself to the Non-Aligned countries.
"Bojana´s research on the nonaligned comes from a cultural and art-historical position. It is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how the non-aligned movement, apart from creating political, or social, or economic alliances was... more
"Bojana´s research on the nonaligned comes from a cultural and art-historical position. It is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how the non-aligned movement, apart from creating political, or social, or economic alliances was also attempting to create cultural alliances that would counter Western cultural hegemony, and what many in the movement, who were interested in culture, also called Western cultural imperialism. "
