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Teoretizacija feminističke umetnosti u socijalističkoj Jugoslaviji
Theorizing Feminist Art in Socialist Yugoslavia

Author(s): Ana Simona Zelenović
Subject(s): Visual Arts, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Centar za ženske studije & Centar za studije roda i politike, Fakultet političkih nauka, Beograd
Keywords: visual arts; feminism; feminist art; history of art; feminist history of art; Yugoslavia; socialism

Summary/Abstract: Since there were plenty of feminist discourses in Yugoslavia, from “women question” discourse of the Party and the government to academic research of sociologist, philosophers, and anthropologists and later feminist activism, there is a need to rethink the possibilities of theory and history of feminist in socialist context. This research aims at connecting different feminist theo- ries with various artistic practices that might have a feminist character. This paper aims to give the analysis of subjects, forms, and meanings of feminist and queer artworks from 1968 till 1990. Considering feminist and queer the- ories, social, historical, political, and cultural context of socialist Yugosla- via, the paper offers one possible history of feminist art, maps its ideas and forms, and presents the methodological problems that this kind of attempt carries.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 71-111
  • Page Count: 41
  • Language: Serbian