Naslov
The Role of Abstraction for Croatian Architectural Modernism

Autori
Šerman, Karin

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

Izvornik
Yugoslavia 1945-91: Architecture and Cities – Recent Studies, IUAV di Venezia / Skansi, Luka ; Tolić, Ines - Venecija : IUAV di Venezia, 2013, 4-4

Skup
Yugoslavia 1945-91: Architecture and Cities – Recent Studies, IUAV di Venezia

Mjesto i datum
Venecija, Italija, 24.01.2013

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Abstraction; Croatian architectural modernism; socialist society; total plastic reality

Sažetak
The presentation focuses on the pronounced tendency towards pure “questions of form” and rigorous geometrical research that marked the art and architectural world in post WW2 Croatia, as part of the Yugoslav federation. It will examine the choice of abstraction as an aesthetic tool meant to adequately serve the new social ideas and circumstances. The concept of abstraction was most vigorously introduced by the group of artists called EXAT 51. The discussion will examine the significance and implications of the concept of abstraction for the postwar Croatian architecture – how it enabled architecture to engage in forming the new socialist society by giving it its proper spatial setting, but at the same time to remain enthusiastically on the steady course of modernism and to advance freely in the autonomous research of their spatial discipline. The discussion will thereby observe the continuity of architectural modernism from the previous, interwar period, as well as the relationships and proximities of architecture and art.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arhitektura i urbanizam

POVEZANOST RADA