{"product_id":"9780472121984","title":"Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91","description":"In the 1970s, Yugoslavia emerged as a dynamic environment for conceptual and performance art. At the same time, it pursued its own form of political economy of socialist self-management. \u003ci\u003eAlienation Effects\u003c\/i\u003e argues that a deep relationship existed between the democratization of the arts and industrial democracy, resulting in a culture difficult to classify. The book challenges the assumption that the art emerging in Eastern Europe before 1989 was either “official” or “dissident” art; and shows thatthe break up of Yugoslavia was not a result of “ancient hatreds” among its peoples but instead came from the distortion and defeat of the idea of self-management.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The case studies include mass performances organized during state holidays; proto-performance art, such as the 1954 production of \u003ci\u003eWaiting for Godot\u003c\/i\u003e in a former concentration camp in Belgrade; student demonstrations in 1968; and body art pieces by Gina Pane, Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovic, and others. \u003ci\u003eAlienation Effects\u003c\/i\u003e sheds new light on the work of well-known artists and scholars, including  early experimental poetry by Slavoj Žižek, as well as performance and conceptual artists that deserve wider, international attention.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121846993136,"sku":"9780472121984","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780472121984_p0.jpg?v=1763707703","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780472121984","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}