| Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91 Contributor(s): Jakovljevic, Branislav (Author) |
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ISBN: 0472053140 ISBN-13: 9780472053148 Publisher: University of Michigan Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - History | Eastern Europe - General |
| Dewey: 791.094 |
| LCCN: 2016010864 |
| Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6" W x 8.8" (1.20 lbs) 382 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Zizek, as well as performance and conceptual artists that deserve wider, international attention. |