An Older and More Beautiful Belgrade : A Visual Chronicle of the Milošević Era / Mileta Prodanović ; translated by Maria Milojković.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Summary language: Serbian Series: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: New York : Central European University Press, 2023Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: English editionDescription: 1 online resource (220 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789633866313
Uniform titles:
  • Stariji i lepši Beograd. English
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Contents:
New forms of sacrilege -- Pathopolis -- Necropolis -- Millennium bug in the graveyard -- Millennium bug in Republic Square.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Original title: Stariji i lepši Beograd.

New forms of sacrilege -- Pathopolis -- Necropolis -- Millennium bug in the graveyard -- Millennium bug in Republic Square.

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"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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