Media Coverage of Visual arts from 1990 until 1995 – on the Example of the City of Zadar in the Republic of Croatia
Media Coverage of Visual arts from 1990 until 1995 – on the Example of the City of Zadar in the Republic of Croatia

Summary/Abstract: The last decade of the 20 century is characterized by political changes, the transition from a socialist to a democratic political system and the reflection of these changes to almost all areas of human life and action. The hardest years during this period were brought by the Homeland War, which has left a particular mark on the first half of the nineties of the last century. With the fight for survival and existence, and other social issues in that very hard time, it was also important to preserve spiritual life. Therefore, culture and cultural activity have a special meaning in the period of war and the post-war period. Visual arts is an important segment of the culture, which is also implemented in the programme of the Cultural Policy of the Republic of Croatia, together with literature and publishing, music, performing arts, movies, media and cultural heritage. Visual arts creation and visual arts events present a contribution to the culture and cultural life which has a special value during war times. The goal of this paper is to analyse the media coverage of visual arts on the basis of articles published in the local newspapers in Zadar, Narodni list and Zadarski list. Special attention is given to the analysis of the themes of articles on visual arts. The paper applies methods of qualitative and quantitative content analysis. Corpus of the research consists of 316 articles published in Fokus, Zadarski list and Narodni list.

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