Title & Author:

NSK from Kapital to capital : Neue Slowenische Kunst, an event of the final decade of Yugoslavia / edited by Zdenka Badovinac, Eda Čufer and Anthony Gardner.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Llubljana, Slovenia : Moderna galerija, Museum of Modern Art ; Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
©2015

Description:

xlii, 546 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, May 11-August 16, 2015.
Contributors include: Bojan Andełković, Inke Arns, Zdenka Badovinac, Barbara Borčić, Dominic Boyer, Eda Čufer, Mladen Dolar, Goran Đorðević, Anthony Gardner, Gediminas Gasparavičius, Boris Groys, Marina Gržinić, Chrissie Iles, Jana Intihar Ferjan, Taras Kermauner, Željko Kipke, Jela Krečič, Lev Kreft, Dejan Kršić, Dušan Mandič, Tomaž Mastnak, Rastko Močnik, Alexei Monroe, Stojan Pelko, Tone Peršak, Katja Praznik, Daniel R. Quiles, Dimitrij Rupel, Sylvia Sasse, Stevphen Shukaitis, Lilijana Stepančič, Darko Štrajn, Igor Vidmar, Catherine Wood, Alexei Yurchak, Jaša L. Zlobec, Slavoj Žižek.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Initiation : the early 1980s and the emergence of the NSK Groups -- Formative stage : from Neue Slowenische Kunst (1984) to NSK State in Time (1992) -- Codification : selected critical essays on NSK during its first decade -- Historization : art-historical and intercultural contextualization from a contemporary perspective -- Primary documents.

Summary:

"This book is the generously illustrated, lavishly documented, critically narrated story of one of the most significant art collectives of the late 20th century. In 1984, three groups of artists in post-Tito Yugoslavia - the music and multimedia group Laibach, the visual arts group IRWIN, and the theatre group Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre - came together to form the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) art collective. Adopting the symbols, codes, appearances and discourses of facism, nationalism, state power, socialist realist and avant-garde art, and pushing the strategies of over-identification and subversive affirmation to their limit, NSK exposed the common foundations of various regimes, systems, and ideologies, while affirming that "art and totalitarianism are not mutually exclusive." Employing music, video, film, exhibitions, writing, graphic design, architecture, theatre, and public relations to probe the aesthetic possibilities of declining socialism and proliferating capitalism, NSK introduced an idiosyncratic version of postmodernism (the retro-avant-garde) into the globalizing cultural sphere."--Back cover.

ISBN:

9780262029957 (The MIT Press ; paperback)
0262029952 (The MIT Press ; paperback)
9789612061166 (Moderna galerija ; paperback)
9612061165 (Moderna galerija ; paperback)

Subject:

Neue Slowenische Kunst (Organization) Exhibitions.
Neue Slowenische Kunst (Organization)
Irwin Künstlervereinigung
Laibach Musikgruppe
Neue Slowenische Kunst Künstlervereinigung
Arts Yugoslavia 20th century Exhibitions.
Arts, Slovenian 20th century Exhibitions.
Arts slovènes 20e siècle Expositions.
Arts Yougoslavie 20e siècle Expositions.
Arts
Arts, Slovenian
Kunst
Yugoslavia
Jugoslawien

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Badovinac, Zdenka, editor.
Čufer, Eda, editor.
Gardner, Anthony, 1976- editor.
Moderna galerija (Ljubljana, Slovenia), host institution.

Neue Slowenische Kunst, an event of the final decade of Yugoslavia

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291298
Call No.: BIB 234807
Status: Available