The Grand Illusion: Tito and 24 Million Metres of Celluloid (2014) [Serbian/English]

“The Grand Illusion is dedicated to the great passion of Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980) for all forms of moving pictures – movies, newsreels and other film and documentary forms. The project is based on the carefully maintained records of films which Tito watched from 15 March 1949 to 16 January 1980.

The Grand Illusion is about Tito as a watcher of films, but also about him as an actor, shadow director and most powerful producer. About a man who watched an average of 280 films a year, in all his residences, on land, sea and rail. About his encounters with the greatest film personalities of the second half of the twentieth century – Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Orson Welles, Richard Burton and Laurence Olivier. About a statesman who was relaxed and entertained by film, and who could say about films “they simply blow your mind”, but who knew how to promote and sell them to serve him for educational purposes, as well as to prepare for travelling or when someone was coming to visit him.”

Publisher Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, 2014
ISBN 9788684811259, 8684811259
67 pages

Exhibition
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Lucy R. Lippard: Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America (1990)

“Mixed Blessings is the first book to discuss the cross-cultural process taking place in the work of contemporary Latino, Native, African, and Asian American artists. Rich with illustrations of artworks in many different media, and filled with incisive quotes and unsettling reports, it is more than a book about art; it is a complex meditation on the relationships of people to their cultures. Lucy R. Lippard challenges conventional approaches and explores the role of images in a changing society. Among her subjects are the uncertainty of exile; the confusion of identity in attempts to climb out of the melting pot; and art that speaks for itself, reversing stereotypes and reclaiming history and memory.

Publisher Pantheon Books, New York, 1990
ISBN 0394577590, 9780394577593
vii+278 pages

Reviews: Publishers Weekly (1990), Nancy Schien Parks (Stud Art Edu, 1995).

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Willy Verkauf (ed.): Dada: Monograph of a Movement. Monographie einer Bewegung. Monographie d’un Mouvement (1957) [EN/DE/FR]

“In Dada: Monograph of a Movement, detailed exposés are given of the history of dadaism and its effects on painting, sculpture, commercial art, literature, music, film and psychology, written by such competent collaborators as Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Hans Richter and more. Attention has been given to the relations of dadaism to expressionism, futurism, surrealism, and other isms. A chronology, a Dada dictionary, various documents in facsimile and more than 200 illustrations give a well-informing survey on dadaism, its participators and their works.”

Co-edited by Marcel Janco and Hans Bolliger
Publisher Alec Tiranti, London, 1957
188 pages

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