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Gušenje umetničkih sloboda u komunističkoj Srbiji
Surpression of Artistic Freedoms in Communist Serbia

Author(s): Marinko Arsić Ivkov
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Centar za unapređivanje pravnih studija
Keywords: communism; artistic freedoms; prohibition of works of art; fake dissidents; self-censorship

Summary/Abstract: The text deals with the issue of court prohibitions of works of art in communist Serbia. The author shows the synchronised participation of politics, judiciary, estetic and artistic critics and journalists in these prohibitions, supported by other segments of the society. After considering the methods used by the regime in pursuit against artists and when prohibiting works of art, the author analyses a phenomenon specific of communist Serbia - fake dissidents. The communist regime had created and financed its, naturally, false enemies, in order to prevent the existance and uniting of true opposition. In the end, the text deals with self-censorship, as a specific form of surpressing artistic freedoms.

  • Issue Year: 2003
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 31-52
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Serbian