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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Bojana Videkanic, "Nonaligned Modernism: Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetics in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
Description: In less than half a century, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia successfully defeated Fascist occupation, fended off dominating pressures from the Eastern and Western blocs, built a modern society on the ashes of war, created its own form of socialism, and led the formation of the Nonaligned Movement. This country's principles and its continued battles, fought against all odds, provided the basis for dynamic and exceptional forms of art.Drawing on archival materials, postcolonial theory, and Eastern European socialist studies, Nonaligned Modernism: Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetics in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020) chronicles the emergence of late modernist art...