{"product_id":"a-slow-burning-fire-isbn-9780262044844","title":"A Slow Burning Fire","description":"\u003cb\u003eYugoslavia's diverse and interconnected art scenes from the 1960s to the 1980s, linked to the country's experience with socialist self-management.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Yugoslavia from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, state-supported Student Cultural Centers became incubators for new art. This era's conceptual and performance art--known as Yugoslavia's New Art Practice--emerged from a network of diverse and densely interconnected art scenes that nurtured the early work of Marina Abramović, Sanja Iveković, Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK), and others. In this book, Marko Ilić offers the first comprehensive examination of the New Art Practice, linking it to Yugoslavia's experience with socialist self-management and the political upheavals of the 1980s.Introduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter One. A Draft Decree on the Democratisation of Art\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two. A Taster of Political Insult\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three. The International Strike of Artists\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four. Artists at Work\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five. What is the Alternative?\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six. The Miracle of Miracles\u003cbr\u003eConclusion“Civil war tore Yugoslavia apart and shattered its vibrant and distinct art world. Marko Ilić’s deeply researched and insightful study reconstructs it brilliantly.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDavid Crowley, professor at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, cocurator of \u003ci\u003eNotes from the Underground: Art and Alternative Music in Eastern Europe 1968–1994\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Marko Ilić’s book contributes a great deal to a better understanding of Yugoslav New Art Practice as an artistic proposal for more, rather than less, of the self-management form of socialism.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eZdenka Badovinac, director, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, and author of \u003ci\u003eComradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-Socialist Europe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eMarko Ilić is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299719303397,"sku":"NP9780262044844","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262044844.jpg?v=1767720797","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-slow-burning-fire-isbn-9780262044844","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}