A significant contribution to scholarship on contemporary artistic practices from the region of Former Yugoslavia. Pavlović warrants this kind of in-depth engagement." - UroŠ Čvoro, author of <i>Transitional Aesthetics: Contemporary Art at the Edge of Europe</i><br /><br />"Pavlović probes the ability of the photographic medium to engage with the great abstractions of modern life, such as ideology, memory, geopolitics, and historical change. The abandoned project of socialist Yugoslavia is at the same time the material object of her photos, their omnipresent reference point, and the ghost that haunts them." - Vladimir Kulić, editor of <i>Second World Postmodernisms: Architecture and Society under Late Socialism</i>

Vesna Pavlović: Stagecraft features four extensive bodies of the photographer's work, spanning from the early 2000s to today-photographs of the Yugoslav socialist modernist hotel spaces from her internationally recognized series "Hotels"; photographs of the ceremonial space of the Yugoslav Presidential Palace in Belgrade from the series "Collection/Kolekcija" and the recent "Fabrics of Socialism" and "Sites of Memory" series exploring the archives of the Museum of Yugoslav History.

The book includes critical essays that contextualize and expound on Pavlović's unique treatment of the photographic medium, in which a photographic moment is expanded to include the conditions of image making, production, documentation, and representation.
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Features four extensive bodies of the photographer's work, spanning from the early 2000s to today - photographs of the Yugoslav socialist modernist hotel spaces from her series ""Hotels""; photographs of the ceremonial space of the Yugoslav Presidential Palace in Belgrade, and the recent ""Fabrics of Socialism"" and ""Sites of Memory"" series.
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  • Introduction
  • Jelena Vesić and Vesna Pavlović
  • "Vesna Pavlović: The Photographic Staging of the Non-performative"
  • Branislav Dimitrijević
  • "Stage-Crafting: Everything Here Is Both Lost and Gained in Translation"
  • Jelena Vesić
  • "Materializing Time: Unsettling Borders and Media in Vesna Pavlović's Oeuvre"
  • Jordan Amirkhani
  • "Ghosts in the Present Tense: The Photography of Vesna Pavlović"
  • John J. Curley
  • Index of Images
  • Images
  • Artist Biography
  • Acknowledgment
  • Contributors
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    ISBN
    9780826501837
    Publisert
    2021-03-15
    Utgiver
    Vanderbilt University Press; Vanderbilt University Press
    Vekt
    1500 gr
    Høyde
    261 mm
    Bredde
    304 mm
    Dybde
    17 mm
    Aldersnivå
    G, 01
    Språk
    Product language
    Engelsk
    Format
    Product format
    Innbundet
    Antall sider
    256

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    Vesna Pavlović is an associate professor of art, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow (2020), Fulbright Scholar (2018-19), and Chancellor Fellow (2018-20) at Vanderbilt University. Her work has been exhibited widely and is included in major private and public art collections, including the Phillips Collection, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Art in Embassies Program in Washington, DC; the Princeton University Art Gallery in Princeton, New Jersey; the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona; and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Serbia, among others. Her work has previously been published in Vesna Pavlović's Lost Art: Photography, Display, and the Archive.