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New Belgrade - a Successful Concept?
(Matica srpska, Novi Sad, 2018)
The demolition of mass housing estates in Western countries initiated several questions regarding the heritage of Modern architecture, and how a global phenomenon failed in some countries. Regardless of their architectural ...
Arnold Bocklin and the Reception of his Art in the Nova iskra Journal in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries / Арнолд Беклин и његова рецепција у листу Нова искра крајем XIX и почетком XX века
(Matica srpska, Novi Sad, 2019)
It wasn't until the end of the 19th century that the work of Arnold Bocklin was recognized in the Serbian social milieu. The contact between Serbian and South Slavic painters established during the last decades of the 19th ...
Second World War monuments in Yugoslavia as witnesses of the past and the future
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2016)
Memorializing the victims of the Second World War was an important part of the cultural and political propaganda in the socialist Yugoslavia. The heroes and the victims of war were remembered through numerous memorials, ...
The Royal Tomb as a Place of Memory: Fabrication and Transformation of the Grave of the Supreme Leader Karadorde in the 19th and the First Half of the 20th Centuries / Владарски гроб као место сећања: уобличавање и трансформације гроба Вожда Карађорђе током XIX и у првој половини XX века
(Matica srpska, Novi Sad, 2020)
Since ancient times the tombs of rulers were shaped as key ideological topoi to be later turned into the places of pilgrimage depending on the historical circumstances. They could have also been the instruments of oblivion ...
Three inspirational modernist realizations by Croatian architects in Belgrade (1928-1935)
(Univ Zagreb Fac Architecture, Zagreb, 2014)
This paper analyzes three notable Modernist architectural projects by Vjekoslav Mursec, Hugo Ehrlich and Ernest Weissmann built in central Belgrade in the late 1920s and mid 1930s: Palaviccini's single-family house, the ...
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade from Ideological Space to Desired Place: Producing the Art History Narrative of Yugoslav Modern Art
(Matica srpska, Novi Sad, 2019)
This paper critically discusses the foundation of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade (MoCAB), the reinvention of Yugoslav modern art and the writing of the history of Yugoslav modern art as equally important and ...
A monument to fallen Jewish soldiers in the wars fought between 1912 and 1919 at the Sephardic cemetery in Belgrade
(ZRC SAZU, Zalozba ZRC, 2013)
A decade after the end of the First World War a memorial to Jewish soldiers who took part in the Balkan Wars, as well as in World War I, was built at the Sephardic cemetery in Belgrade. This memorial was designed by the ...
Public monuments in sacred space memorial tombs as national monuments in nineteenth century Serbia
(ZRC SAZU, Zalozba ZRC, 2013)
One of the most common forms of public monument in the nineteenth-century Serbian memorial culture was the memorial tomb. Marking the graves of prominent people is one of the oldest forms of memorialization. In the nineteenth ...
Icons of Maria Angelina Doukaina Palailologina
(Matica srpska, Novi Sad, 2019)
Icons of Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina are examples of female ktetorship in Byzantine cultural sphere (Byzantine culture) in late Middle Ages. Made at the end of the 14th century, these icons transferred the position ...
An Assumed Dedication of the Medieval Franciscan Monastery in Belgrade to the Assumption of Mary
(Matica srpska, Novi Sad, 2019)
This paper hypothesizes that medieval Franciscan monastery in Belgrade had been dedicated to the Assumption of Mary into Heaven. Due to a lack of the original written sources on the topic, the hypothesis is being based on ...