An older and more beautiful Belgrade a visual chronicle of the Miloševic era
"This substantial essay depicts urban collapse in an exceptionally difficult period of the Serbian capital. The author has marshalled facts, reflections, photographs and other imagesto demonstrate the transformation of Belgrade during the Miloševic years. With the theoretical grounding of cultu...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Budapest
Central European University Press
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | English edition |
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "This substantial essay depicts urban collapse in an exceptionally difficult period of the Serbian capital. The author has marshalled facts, reflections, photographs and other imagesto demonstrate the transformation of Belgrade during the Miloševic years. With the theoretical grounding of cultural anthropology, history studies, culture of memory, history of art, and urbanism, Mileta Prodanovic considers changes to the built environment and urban landscape in the city in the 1990s. He covers many visual aspects of life with great ingenuity: shopping centers, unregulated construction and "wild" modifications of buildings, new buildings (broadcasting studios, shops, homes) that do not fit the surroundings, bad taste in home furnishings (camp, kitsch), boondoggles such as the international art center, problematic historical markers like the obelisk of the eternal flame, billboards, store displays, electoral propaganda, graffiti, grave-markers and cemetery memorials, coins and paper money, calendars, beer labels, and even religious icons (and more). All this information is provided with some critique and much implied comparison to past standards"-- |
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| Item Description: | Original title: Stariji i lepši Beograd |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9633866316 9633866324 9633866308 9789633866306 |