Naslov
Beyond the Modernist Paradigm : Critical Perspectives on Authorship in Yugoslav Memorial Production

Autori
Horvatinčić, Sanja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Shaping revolutionary memory : the production of monuments in socialist Yugoslavia

Urednik/ci
Horvatinčić, Sanja ; Žerovc, Beti

Izdavač
Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory ; Archive Books

Grad
Ljubljana ; Berlin

Godina
2023

Raspon stranica
298-335

ISBN
978-961-94691-3-2

Ključne riječi
Monuments, Socialist Yugoslavia, authorship, 'artist-genius', women artists

Sažetak
The notion of authorship in Yugoslav memorial practice is the central issue discussed in Sanja Horvatinčić’s chapter “Beyond the Modernist Paradigm: Critical Perspectives on Authorship in Yugoslav Memorial Production”. She argues that the field of memorial production in socialist Yugoslavia and the position of the author within it were conditioned by a large and complex set of parameters and actors, whose power relations and dynamics differed and changed throughout the period. She outlines several characteristic models of authorship linked to the gradual stratification of memorial production, which resulted from the prevalence of the modernist paradigm since the 1950s and the consequent professionalization of the field, with the figure of the “artist-genius” as the most desirable model of authorship. This led to a growing “aesthetic disproportionality” between memorials produced at the highest levels, on the one hand, and semi-professional, amateur, or mass-produced works, on the other – which became especially visible with the enormous investments in large-scale memorial production from the 1960s on. In the second part of the chapter, Horvatinčić challenges the normative role of the artist-genius, with examples of amateur production and craftsmanship as well as specific models of female participation in this pronouncedly male genre of public art.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arhitektura i urbanizam, Povijest umjetnosti

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