{"product_id":"alienation-effects-branislav-jakovljevic-9780472053148","title":"Alienation Effects","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 was either \"official\" or \"dissident\" art; and shows that the break up of Yugoslavia was not a result of \"ancient hatreds\" among its peoples but instead came from the distortion and defeat of the idea of self-management.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The case studies include mass performances organized during state holidays; proto-performance art, such as the 1954 production of Waiting for Godot in a former concentration camp in Belgrade; student demonstrations in 1968; and body art pieces by Gina Pane, Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovic, and others. Alienation Effects sheds new light on the work of well-known artists and scholars, including early experimental poetry by Slavoj Zizek, as well as performance and conceptual artists that deserve wider, international attention.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Branislav Jakovljevic","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":49281997144307,"sku":"8880002994932","price":26.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9780472053148.jpg?v=1781986338","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/alienation-effects-branislav-jakovljevic-9780472053148","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}