У стегама федерализације: Александар Дероко и историја архитектуре у средњовековној Србији (други део)
Pressed by Federalization: Alexander Deroko and the History of Architecture in Medieval Serbia (second part)

Summary/Abstract: There is no doubt that one of the most influential synthetic works of Serbian architectural history written after WWII is Monumentalna i dekorativna arhitektura u srednjovekovnoj Srbiji (Monumental and Decorative Architecture in Medieval Serbia). Its three successive editions (1953, 1962, 1985) represent not only a historiographical enterprise of kinds, but also a narrative which conspicuously demonstrates some of the preoccupations of Serbian architectural history in socialist Yugoslavia. The real effect of Deroko’s monograph can only be understood in a wider social and ideological context of the 1950s-1980s, in which medieval monuments were appropriated, becoming closely interrelated with the questions of the Yugoslav nations’ historicity and identity. This article is a second part of the study which explores how Deroko’s own work, as part of Serbian architectural historiography, became simultaneously adapted to and dissent from the principle of federalist competence. It is only through the comprehension of slight differences in various editions of Monumentalna i dekorativna arhitektura that one can apprehend the key ideological importance of medieva monuments both for cultural legitimization and delegitimization of the federalist paradigm, which otherwise sharply marked the national question in socialist Yugoslavia.

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