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1 online resource (ix, 215 pages : illustrations) |
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Cover -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Editor's Note -- Foreword. Interrupted Memories, Transitory Identities:Urban Culture in Belgrade -- Author's Summary -- Addendum for the English edition -- 1. New Forms Of Sacrilege -- The Icon: Between The World And God -- Differentiating Icon from Idol -- Profane Icons: A Socialist Innovation -- The Icon in Serbia's Post-Socialist "Popular Awakening" -- 2. Pathopolis -- Money as an Image of the State -- Belgrade as a Patchwork City -- Urban Downfall in the Shadow of War -- The City as a Forum |
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"Targeting" in the Urban Environment -- We Won (1): Medals as Reflections of an Incoherent Ideology -- New Houses for New People -- Celebrity Charlatans -- Interlude: How the Past Travels -- Požeška Street as a Manifesto of "Anti-bureaucratic" Architecture -- The Way Something Is Written Is as Important as the Content- Maybe Even More -- Interlude: The Fine Art of Image Destruction (Iconoclasm Revisited) -- Elections in the Urban Landscape -- Megalomaniacs -- We Won (2): The Eternity Which Lasted a Few Months -- 3. Necropolis -- Princes, Living and Dead -- Rulers' Graves -- Subjects' Graves |
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"Hush Thou Night... " -- Millennium Bug in the Graveyard -- Millennium Bug in Republic Square -- Biographies -- Index -- Back cover |
| 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 Milošević years. With the theoretical grounding of cultural anthropology, history studies, culture of memory, history of art, and urbanism, Mileta Prodanović 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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Political science.
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Material culture -- Serbia -- Belgrade -- History
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Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-communism & Socialism.
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Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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Belgrade (Serbia) -- History -- 20th century
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Belgrade (Serbia) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- History
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Serbia -- Politics and government -- 1992-2006. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001007009
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Milojković, Maria, translator
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Horvitz, Robert, editor
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Šešić, Milena Dragićević, writer of foreword
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| ISBN |
9789633866313 |
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9633866316 |
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