Naslov
The Role of Architect Bernardo Bernardi and the Neo-Avant-Garde Group Exat 51 in the Establishment of Croatian Design

Autori
Ceraj, Iva

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
"Material Meanings" - Third Biannual Conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies / Ayers, David - Canterbury : University of Kent - Keyness College, 2012, 63-64

Skup
Third Biannual Conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies - EAM

Mjesto i datum
Canterbury, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo, 07.09.2012. - 09.09.2012

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
International / Historical Avant-Garde; Transmissions of the Inheritance; Neo-Avant-Garde Framework; Croatian 1950s; Interdisciplinary Work of the Group Exat 51; Architect and Industrial Designer Bernardo Bernardi; Establishment of Croatian Design

Sažetak
Starting from the fifties of the 20th century in Croatia, initiating efforts went on within the framework of professional organisations for the sake of a correct understanding of the concept of new profession – design. The stimuli for and burdens of the organisation were regularly reliant on the enthusiasm of a small number of interdisciplinarily-oriented creative minds or theorists from the ranks of architects, painters, applied artists or art historians who, thanks to visionary perspicuity, were able to assess the moment of their time, immersing it in the context of the inheritance of the historical avant-garde and the principles of Modernism. All the ways in which these discourses were transmitted - in which the phrase ‘synthesis of all the arts’ is inherent in the sense of a constructional and functional approach to the problems of design constituted - represented important points of orientation. From this point of view the foundation and activity of Exat 51 in 1951 can for certainty be viewed as one of the initial lines of transmission of this discourse. Indeed, the engagement of architects in Exat 51, among whom architect Bernardo Bernardi (1921-1985) played the role of the first industrial designer, would very largely prepare the ground for a proper comprehension of design as an activity per se and profession that summed up the interdisciplinary definitions of its activity. Just like Bernardi, the other Exat architect members, too, came from the Engineering Faculty of Zagreb University (Architectural Design Department), where they had the opportunity to absorb the continuity of the trends of Modernism and the ideational formation of the functionalism of the Zagreb Circle. In the context of the establishment of design in Croatia, Exat 51 represents an important base that would have a direct effect on the formation of the design profession and the theoretical discourse.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest umjetnosti

Napomena
Partneri Skupa: The Centre for European Modern Literature, The Faculty of Humanities, The School of English (Departmens at the University of Kent) ; Polish Cultural Institute, London ; Romanian Cultural Institute, London.

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