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An Older and More Beautiful Belgrade A Visual Chronicle of the Milo¿evic Era

By Mileta Prodanovic, Robert Horvitz Copyright 2023
226 Pages
by Central European University Press

226 Pages
by Central European University Press

This substantial essay depicts urban collapse in an exceptionally difficult period of the Serbian capital. The author has marshalled facts, reflections, photographs and other imagesto demonstrate the transformation of Belgrade during the Milošević years. With the theoretical grounding of cultural anthropology, history studies, culture of memory, history of art, and urbanism, Mileta... Read more
Editor's Note, Foreword, Interrupted Memories, Transitory Identities: Urban Culture in Belgrade, Author's Summary, 1. New Forms Of Sacrilege, 2. Pathopolis, 3. Necropolis, Millennium Bug in the Graveyard Millennium Bug in Republic Square, Biographies, Index

Biography

Mileta Prodanovic -- painter, writer and a major cultural figure in Serbia -- was born in Belgrade. He studied architecture and painting at Belgrade’s University of Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts. Prof. Prodanovic was Serbia’s representing artist at the Venice Biennale in 1986. Retired now, the author’s last academic positions were as a full-time professor and Dean of the University of Art, Belgrade.

Maria Milojkovic lives in Belgrade and works as an English/Serbian translator. She has a master’s degree in postmodern English literature and is an online content creator for Medium.com

A US citizen living in Prague since 1991, Horvitz began visiting Serbia and the other Yugoslav republics in 1993 as the Open Society Institute's regional consultant for electronic media and journalism. More recently he has been producing policy studies for the European Commission, the World Bank, the International Telecommunication Union, and national governments on the regulation and use of radio frequencies. He currently teaches at Anglo-American University in Prague.