Artists at War : Narratives, Visual Arts and the Siege of Sarajevo (Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict)

Kumelowski, Ewa Anna

Palgrave Macmillan（2025/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 276 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783031873195

Full Description

This book follows the lives of Sarajevan visual artists as they responded to the rising instability and political fragmentation that defined the last days of Yugoslavia's existence. Exploring how these artists understood and spoke about the onset of war, it places a focus on a series of recognizable discourses, touching upon notions of Yugoslav common culture, civilization and cultural resistance, which have since become synonymous with the memory of the siege of Sarajevo. This book hinges its central arguments on a microhistorical reading of this unique cultural community that existed simultaneously on the practical periphery of Yugoslav cultural developments and within the center of the state's fragmentation. In doing so, it offers a novel approach towards understanding the experiences of everyday life in besieged Sarajevo

Contents

Chapter 1: A creative community in war: introducing the visual arts scene of besieged.- Chapter 2: Stateless and supranational: tracing the dissolution of a Yugoslav cultural community (1987-1992).- Chapter 3: We must create as they destroy: usage and adaptation of narratives of civilization by Sarajevan visual artists.- Chapter 4: Artistic defense and responses to the militarization of everyday life.- Chapter 5: Creating in destruction. Artists as agents in besieged Sarajevo.