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

by Branislav Jakovljevic

In the 1970s, Yugoslavia emerged as a dynamic environment forconceptual and performance art. At the same time, it pursued its ownform of political economy of socialist self-management. Alienation Effectsargues that a deep relationship existed between the democratizationof the arts and industrial democracy, resulting in a culture difficult toclassify. The book challenges the assumption that the art emergingin Eastern Europe before 1989 was either "official"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472073141
• ISBN13: 9780472073146
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"