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University of Waterloo's Department of Fine Arts in association with McGill-University Press invites you to a the launch of Bojana Videkanic's new book, Nonaligned Modernism: Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetic in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985.
Bojana Videkanic is assistant professor of visual culture at the University of Waterloo. The author will join discussants Katja Praznik (SUNY Buffalo) and Tamara Vukov (Université de Montréal). The event will be chaired by Joan Coutu (University of Waterloo).
Drawing on archival materials, postcolonial theory, and Eastern European socialist studies, Nonaligned Modernism chronicles the emergence of late modernist artistic practices in Yugoslavia from the end of the Second World War to the mid-1980s. Situating Yugoslav modernism within postcolonial artistic movements of the twentieth century, Bojana Videkanic explores how cultural workers collaborated with others from the Global South to create alternative artistic and cultural networks that countered Western hegemony. Videkanic focuses primarily on art exhibitions along with examples of international cultural exchange to demonstrate that nonaligned art wove together politics and aesthetics, and indigenous, Western, and global influences.