Pragmaticari, dogmati, sanjari  Pragmatists, Dogmatists, Dreamers 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2004207B

  Author(s)

  Zupan, Ivica

  City

  Zagreb 

  Country

  Croatia 

  Language

  Croatian 

  ISBN

  - 

  Date of Publication

  2007 

  Publisher

  INA Industrija nafte  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  463 

  Subject

  Literature

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Zupan, Ivica

  Publisher

  INA Industrija nafte  

• Description

  Pragmatists, Dogmatists, Dreamers The hypothesis about the manipulative nature of the relationship between politics and art, the tolerance of totalitarian government and artists for the sake of (mutual) benefit, is not new. However, in Župan's largely multidisciplinary research, which subjects the most important positions presented so far to a coherent analysis and brings quite convincing conclusions, this hypothesis is for the first time set out on material that is not partial. The focus of the study is, admittedly, a specific group of visual artists, members of EXAT 51 - their activity, together with the roots from which they grow and the consequences they leave, is illuminated from many angles, versatile; but the greatest value of Župan's work is that it has transcended the boundaries of just one art and an individual case and has risen to a level that more clearly and more well-foundedly than before, reflects on some new coordinates of Croatian culture and art in a certain time. (Strahimir Primorac)