The book launch is March 19, 2020 at Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto, Ontario M6R 2M6.
"In
less
than
half
a
century,
the
Socialist
Federal
Republic
of
Yugoslavia
successfully
defeated
Fascist
occupation,
fended
off
dominating
pressures
from
the
Eastern
and
Western
blocs,
built
a
modern
society
on
the
ashes
of
war,
created
its
own
form
of
socialism,
and
led
the
formation
of
the
Nonaligned
Movement.
This
country's
principles
and
its
continued
battles,
fought
against
all
odds,
provided
the
basis
for
dynamic
and
exceptional
forms
of
art.
Drawing
on
archival
materials,
postcolonial
theory,
and
Eastern
European
socialist
studies,
Nonaligned
Modernism
chronicles
the
emergence
of
late
modernist
artistic
practices
in
Yugoslavia
from
the
end
of
the
Second
World
War
to
the
mid-1980s.
Situating
Yugoslav
modernism
within
postcolonial
artistic
movements
of
the
twentieth
century,
Bojana
Videkanic
explores
how
cultural
workers
collaborated
with
others
from
the
Global
South
to
create
alternative
artistic
and
cultural
networks
that
countered
Western
hegemony.
Videkanic
focuses
primarily
on
art
exhibitions
along
with
examples
of
international
cultural
exchange
to
demonstrate
that
nonaligned
art
wove
together
politics
and
aesthetics,
and
indigenous,
Western,
and
global
influences.
An
interdisciplinary
book,
Nonaligned
Modernism
highlights
Yugoslavia's
key
role
in
the
creation
of
a
global
modernist
ethos
and
international
postcolonial
culture."