Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91

by Branislav Jakovljevic

In the 1970s, Yugoslavia emerged as a dynamic environment for conceptual and performance art. At the same time, it pursued its own form of political economy of socialist self-management. Alienation Effects argues that a deep relationship existed between the democratization of the arts and industrial democracy, resulting in a culture difficult to classify. The book challenges the assumption that the art emerging in Eastern Europe before 1989...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472053140
• ISBN13: 9780472053148
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.8"