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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dubravka Djurić; Miško Šuvaković |
| ISBN: | 0262042169 9780262042161 0262541890 9780262541893 |
| OCLC Number: | 50253228 |
| Description: | ix, 605 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Dubravka Djurić and Miško Šuvaković. |
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"This volume is an essential guide to previously uncharted territories. Until the publication of Impossible Histories, hardly anyone outside of former Yugoslavia could have grasped the region's extraordinarily complex contribution to avant-garde and neo-avant-garde art, architecture, music, dance, and performance--all of which are recorded here for the first time in detailed historical accounts, precise documentation, and pertinent critical commentary." --Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Professor of Twentieth-Century Art History at Barnard College, Columbia University "Impossible Histories is a nearly encyclopedic work and a revelation to the outside world of the fruitful impact of experimental modernism on artists and poets in what we now think of as 'the former Yugoslavia.' In this assemblage of essays and photographs by many hands, Dubravka Djuric and Misko Suvakovic bring to light a hidden center of the avant-garde and by so doing help complete the picture of the great experimental project of the just concluded century." --Jerome Rothenberg, poet, University of California, San Diego "To participate in the international avant-garde movements was for many intellectuals and artists of Eastern Europe the only way to keep independence and critical distance from the violent ethnic, religious and ideological conflicts that dominated this region during the twentieth century. By documenting the political relevance and tragic fate of the artistic avant-gardes on the territories of former Yugoslavia, Impossible Histories reveals the inner dynamics and true spirit of the avant-garde--as distinct from its later commodification by the Western culture industry." --Boris Groys, Professor of Philosophy and Media Theory, Center for Arts and Media Technology, Karlsruhe, and author of The Total Art of Stalinism: Russian Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond "Impossible Histories is not only the most penetrating history of modern culture in the former Yugoslavia yet to appear; it is a model study of the creativity and complexity of modernism generally. By offering critical perspectives not only on painting and sculpture but also on music, dance, film, theater, architecture, literature, and photography, Impossible Histories reveals the complicity of all the creative and performing arts in first begetting, then exploiting, and finally overcoming avant-garde culture." --Steven Mansbach, Professor of the History of Modern Art, University of Maryland, author of Modern Art in Eastern Europe: From the Baltic to the Balkans, ca. 1890-1939 "In the endlessly war-torn and conflicted Yugoslav cultures of the twentieth century, the avant-garde was not just a museum luxury; it was always relentlessly political, activist, and truly transformative. This fascinating and meticulously assembled collection of essays by leading artists and scholars traces the daring and imaginative cultural production of Yugoslavia from the fall of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire in 1918 to the fall of Yugoslavia itself in 1991. As such, this major publication opens our eyes to a whole new dimension of avant-garde practice. Impossible Histories will be read and discussed for years to come." --Marjorie Perloff, Sadie D. Patek Professor Emerita of Humanities, Stanford University, author of The Futurist Moment and Radical Artifice Read more...
