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Consumer Culture Landscapes in Socialist Yugoslavia

Consumer Culture Landscapes in Socialist Yugoslavia

Bodrozic, Natasa
Micin, Lidija
Simpraga, Sasa

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ISBN10: 9493148009
ISBN13: 9789493148000
Publisher: Onomatopee
Published: Jun 18 2019
Pages: 488
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.80 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

The ascent and architecture of consumerism in the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia

As MoMA's recent exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia showed, the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia launched a unique experiment with progressive social policies, matched by unique urban and spatial development. The period from the end of the 1960s up to the country's disintegration in the 1990s is an ambiguous period, however: while according to some researchers the market-oriented economic reforms brought a much-needed opening and liberalization, according to others it marked the decline of the revolutionary demand for equality and the ascent of consumerism.

Organized around an architectural typology, Consumer Culture Landscapes in Socialist Yugoslavia delves into the complexities of this period. It focuses on the sports and shopping centre Koteks Gripe in Split and similar architectural complexes in Sarajevo, Novi Sad and Prishtina, all designed by the Sarajevo based architect Zivorad Jankovic and associates; from these examples the book expands towards broader considerations of the architectural transformations of the Yugoslav modernist project.

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