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1st Edition

Contemporary Art in Bosnia-Herzegovina Crisis, Rupture and Discontinuity

Edited By Jonathan Blackwood, Irfan Hošić Copyright 2027

236 Pages 5 Color & 20 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

This edited volume traces the evolution and layered mutations of the production, consumption and discussion of contemporary art from Bosnia-Herzegovina, a European country where a devastating war resulted in the deaths of approximately 100,000 people and the displacement of over 2 million refugees. Chapters bring the art of a nation considered by some as peripheral, whose ‘European-ness’ is... Read more

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Jon Blackwood and Irfan Hošić

2. Sarajevo art shows during the second half of the 1980s

Ješa Denegri

3. Saved by the Bell: Neo-Avant-Garde Strategies and Use of Mass Media in the Practice of Group ZVONO

Adna Muslija

4. Contemporary Art in Bosnia and Herzegovina within the Common Yugoslav Art Space

Amila Pužić

5. Urban (Trans)formation: Crisis, Rupture and the Response of Art

Asja Mandić

6. Utopian State-Building in Artistic Practice during the siege of Sarajevo

Ewa Anna Kumelowski

7. Interview with Ambrosia Group

Jonathan Blackwood

8. Performative Acts of Memory in the Bosnian Diaspora: Displacement and the Politics of Remembering

Claudia Zini

9. BiH Art in the Age of Triumphalism: Memorialisation in the work of Aida Šehović and Mladen Miljanović

Uroš Čvoro

10. Bosnian Forensic Contemporaneity and Visual Arts

Adla Isanović

11. STATE OF ART : volatile geographies of war and peace

Jelena Petrović

12. The Crisis in Culture and Civic Resistance in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Irfan Hošić

13. Problematics in Contemporary Art from Bosnia-Herzegovina since 2010

Jonathan Blackwood

14. Art of the dispossessed: not necessarily spectacular but necessary for the continuation of survival

Hana Ćurak

15. Exploring the Past and Charting the Future: A Study of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Emerging Artists

Envera Moro

16. Interview with Tijana Mišković

Irfan Hošić

Editor(s)

Biography

Jonathan Blackwood is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. He is the author of Critical Art in Contemporary Macedonia.

Irfan Hošić teaches Art History and Modern Art and Design at the Textile Department at the University of Bihać. His most recent book is Image of Crisis. Cultural and Artistic Circumstances in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1990-2020).

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