Croatia

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Cities

Zagreb, Rijeka, Split, Čakovec, Dubrovnik, Kalebova Luka, Karlovac, Krizevci, Labin, Osijek, Ražanj, Zadar.

Predecessors

Events
  • Proljetni (Spring) Salon, the first avant-garde activity in Zagreb, 1916
  • 1923, the first Zenithist soirees in Belgrade and Zagreb, organised by Micić
Manifestos
  • Zenitist Manifesto by Ljubomir Micić originally published as Manifest Zenitizma in Zenit no. 1 (Zagreb, 1921)
  • Borse dekliniert triest by Dragan Aleksić [11]
  • Group Zemlja Manifesto by Drago Ibler
Publications
  • Zenit (Zenith) avant-garde magazinem, published in Zagreb, 1921-1923, later in Belgrade, 1923-1926. Initiated by poet Ljubomir Micić, introduced constructivism, futurism and Dadaism to Croatia and Serbia. 43 issues of Zenit and 34 volumes of varying format and size were published in Zenit collection. The magazine brought together a number of collaborators: Marijan Mikac, Jo Klek, Vilko Gecan, Mihailo Petrov, Boško Tokin, Stanislav Vinaver and others. Foreign collaborators included the French poet Ivan Goll and with Alexander Archipenko, Ilya Ehrenburg, Wassily Kandinsky, El Lissitzky, Louis Lozowick.
  • Zenithism as the Balkan Totalizer of New Life manifesto, in Zenit, 1923, by Micić
Literature
  • Jadranka Vinterhalter (ed.), Prodori avangarde u hrvatskoj umjetnosti prve polovice 20.stoljeca / Flashes od avant-garde in the croatian art of the first half of the 20th century. Zagreb: MSU, 2007. [12]
  • Irina Subotić, "Concerning Art and Politics in Yugoslavia during the 1930s", Art Journal Vol. 52, No. 1, Political Journals and Art, 1910-40 (Spring, 1993), pp. 69-71. [13]
  • Irina Subotić, "Avant-Garde Tendencies in Yugoslavia", Art Journal Vol. 49, No. 1, From Leningrad to Ljubljana: The Suppressed Avant-Gardes of East-Central and Eastern Europe during the Early Twentieth Century (Spring, 1990), pp. 21-27. [14]
  • Dubravka Đurić, "Radical Poetic Practices: Concrete and Visual Poetry in the Avant-garde and Neo-avant-garde" published in Impossible Histoires (Historic Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991) edited by Dubravka Đurić and Miško Šuvaković (MIT Press: 2003), pp 64-95
  • Darko Šimičić, "From Zenit to Mental Space: Avant-garde, Neo-avant-garde, and Post-avant-garde Magazines and Books in Yugoslavia, 1921--1987" published in Impossible Histoires (Historic Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991) edited by Dubravka Đurić and Miško Šuvaković (MIT Press: 2003), pp 294-331
Resources
  • Avantgarde Museum, [15]

Artist groups

Arts and engineering groups and collectives in CEE#Croatia

Computer and computer-aided art

New Tendencies

Electroacoustic music

Literature
  • Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman, "Problems and Paradoxes of Yugoslav Avant-garde Music (Outlines for a Reinterpretation)" published in Impossible Histoires (Historic Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991) edited by Dubravka Đurić and Miško Šuvaković (MIT Press: 2003), pp 404-441

Experimental film

avant-garde
  • Zlatko Hajdler
1950s-1960s - the second avant-garde
1970s - video art, "new art practices"
1980s - video art
1990s
  • Kuduz, Knezevic, Tikulin, Bukovac, Simonovic-Narath, Zanki.

Film theory

Mihovil Pansini, antifilm (in use since 1962)

Centres

Kino-klub Split amateur club, Multi-Media Center of Student center Zagreb (*1976)

Festivals and exhibitions

  • Genre Film Festival (GEFF), Zagreb (1963, 1965, 1967, 1970)
    • 1963, Antifilm and New Tendencies in Cinema
    • 1965, The Research of Film and Research by Film
    • 1967, Cybernetics and Aesthetics
    • 1970, Sexuality as the Possible Way to New Humanism
  • MAFAF (Interclub Amateur and Artist Film Festival) aka 'Mala Pula'
  • avant-garde film exhibition in Lodz, Poland in 1978
  • "Third International Avant-Garde Festival" at National Film Theatre in London, 1979
  • "Film as Film" exhibition at Hayward Gallery, London, 1979
  • Genoa 1980
  • "The Other Side: European Avant-Garde Cinema 1960-1980", The American Federation of Art program
  • This Is All Film! Experimental Film in Yugoslavia 1951-1991, 2010-2011, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana

Literature

  • Nevena Daković, "The Unfilmable Scenario and Neglected Theory: Yugoslav Film Avant-Garde: 1895-1992" published in the Impossible Histoires (Historic Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991) edited by Dubravka Djuric and Misko Suvakovic (MIT Press: 2003)
  • Ana Janevski (ed.): As Soon as I Open My Eyes I See a Film. Experiment in the Art of Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2010. With essays by Ana Janevski (on experimental art and film in Yugoslavia), Stevan Vuković (on political upheaval in 1968 in Belgrade), and Łukasz Ronduda (on contacts between Yugoslav and Polish artists in the 1970s). [18] Interview with Ana Janevski, June 2011
  • Hvorje Turkovic, "Croatian Avant-Garde Scene", Zagreb, 1993. [19]
  • Heiko Daxl, "Film and Video-art in Croatia. Fragmentary Sketches of a History and a Description of the Status Quo", August 1993. (English), (German)
  • Andrew J Horton, "Avant-garde Film and Video in Croatia" Central European Review (November 1998) [20] (English)

Video art

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Artists
Events

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Literature
  • Heiko Daxl, "Film and Video-art in Croatia. Fragmentary Sketches of a History and a Description of the Status Quo", August 1993. (English), (German)
  • Tihomir Milovac (ed.): Insert / Retrospective of Croatian Video Art, MSU: Zagreb, 2008. The publication is a follow-up of the museum’s 2005 retrospective and presents the works of some one hundred video artists on 360 pages with 466 reproductions, in Croatian and English. Authors: Tihomir Milovac, Silva Kalčić, Antonija Majača, Branko Franceschi. [23]
  • Andrew J Horton, "Avant-garde Film and Video in Croatia" Central European Review (November 1998) [24] (English)
  • Barbara Borčić, "Video Art from Conceptualism to Postmodernism" published in Impossible Histoires (Historic Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991) edited by Dubravka Đurić and Miško Šuvaković (MIT Press: 2003), pp 490-524. [25] [26] [27]
  • Marijan Susovski, "Video u Jugoslaviji", Spot, no. 10, Zagreb 1977.
  • Raša Todosijević, Video, Videosfera: video/društvo/umetnost ("The Video: Videosphere: video/society/art"), Studentski izdavački centar, ed. Mihailo Ristić, Belgrade 1986.

Art theory and art history

Matko Meštrović, Božo Bek, Dimitrije Bašičević, Željko Bujas, Grgo Gamulin, Vera Horvat-Pintarić

More artists

Past events

Media

Publications

  • Dubravka Đurić and Miško Šuvaković (eds.), Impossible Histories: Historic Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991, MIT Press, 2003. [29]
  • Klaudio Štefanović, "New Media Art in Croatia", 2007 [30], (Croatian)
  • Darko Fritz, "Media Arts in Croatia" [31] [32]
  • Ana Peraica, "HR - A remark on art & technology research in regard to the place of origin taken as the state, place of living, as well as only a domain" [33]
  • Irina Subotić, "Avant-Garde Tendencies in Yugoslavia", Art Journal, Vol. 49, No. 1, From Leningrad to Ljubljana: The Suppressed Avant-Gardes of East-Central and Eastern Europe during the Early Twentieth Century (Spring, 1990), pp. 21-27. Published by: College Art Association. [34]
  • Katherine Ann Carl, Aoristic Avant-garde: Experimental Art in 1960s and 1970s Yugoslavia. Dissertation, Stony Brook University, May 2009. [35]


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