{"product_id":"alienation-effects-branislav-jakovljevic-9780472073146","title":"Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91","description":"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. \u003ci\u003eAlienation Effects\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003ci\u003eAlienation Effects\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Branislav Jakovljevic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472073141\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472073146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/13\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d","brand":"Branislav Jakovljevic","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064991428863,"sku":"9780472073146","price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_44d2f4ba-d686-4a0a-aba1-a4170f0f082d.jpg?v=1768672411","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/alienation-effects-branislav-jakovljevic-9780472073146","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}