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Between Creativity and Pragmatism: A Structural Analysis and Quantitative Survey of Federal Competitions for Yugoslav Monuments and Memorial Complexes (1955–1980)

The text is based on the hypothesis that the institution of federal architectural competitions – due to the insistence of the responsible bodies on interdisciplinary artists' collaboration, and the inclusion of various social actors in the decision-making bodies – played one of the crucial roles in the formation of "new memorial landscape" in the post-war Yugoslavia, that is, in establishing and delineating the high-level production within the overall monuments' production. The analysis will be focused on social and structural networks of the two main entities defining Yugoslav/international competitions for WWII monuments in the period 1955-1975: interdisciplinary competing teams composed of artists, architects, urban planners and other involved specialists, on the one hand, and jury members defining the decision-making bodies, composed of experts from the field of art, culture and politics, on the other. As opposed to artists' groups and other kinds of networking models in that period (esp. neo- Avant-Garde ones that were generated via exhibitions, magazines, etc.), the expected network will feature a stable and balanced structure, indicating, however, unexpected scope, frequencies of collaboration, nods and pronounced roles of individual entities. Apart from the statistical analysis of the involved entities (profession, gender, location, etc.), the article will also feature spatial visualisation of monuments' locations, as well as the locations of origin of the competing teams, aimed at disclosing (in)balanced participation of artists from various Yugoslav cultural centres, and their involvement in the international (European) competitions of the same type. By employing the CAN_IS database and different visualisation tools, we will be able to reveal the (infra)structural foundations of the high-level memorial production of the post- war Yugoslavia, that surpassed republic and national borders, and that was in large part responsible for its innovative outbreaks on the formal and poetic level.

digital art history ; social networks analysis ; Socialist Yugoslavia ; monuments ; memorial complexes, monuments competitions

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