Artists at War

Narratives, Visual Arts and the Siege of Sarajevo
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-87319-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 496 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict

This book follows the lives of Sarajevan visual artists as they responded to the rising instability and political fragmentation that defined the last days of Yugoslavia’s existence. Exploring how these artists understood and spoke about the onset of war, it places a focus on a series of recognizable discourses, touching upon notions of Yugoslav common culture, civilization and cultural resistance, which have since become synonymous with the memory of the siege of Sarajevo. This book hinges its central arguments on a microhistorical reading of this unique cultural community that existed simultaneously on the practical periphery of Yugoslav cultural developments and within the center of the state’s fragmentation. In doing so, it offers a novel approach towards understanding the experiences of everyday life in besieged Sarajevo

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kumelowski, Ewa Anna

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: A creative community in war: introducing the visual arts scene of besieged.- Chapter 2: Stateless and supranational: tracing the dissolution of a Yugoslav cultural community (1987-1992).- Chapter 3: We must create as they destroy: usage and adaptation of narratives of civilization by Sarajevan visual artists.- Chapter 4: Artistic defense and responses to the militarization of everyday life.- Chapter 5: Creating in destruction. Artists as agents in besieged Sarajevo.

Über Autor(innen)

Ewa Anna Kumelowski is a historian of 20th Century Yugoslav cultural history, with a focus on expressions of everyday experiences in war, particularly amongst marginalized or otherwise overlooked populations. She holds a joint PhD from the Humboldt University of Berlin and the EHESS in Paris.