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  • Images of friendship : analysis of artworks, ethnological and applied arts gifts from non-aligned countries to the President of SFRY, Josip Broz
    Velikonja, Mitja, 1965-
    The present two-step research analyses the gifts stored in the repositories of the Museum of Yugoslavia in Belgrade that President Tito received from leaders and delegations of non-aligned countries. ... In the first step, I concentrate on the visual language—the cultural breadth and ideological layers—of a total of 39 artworks presented as gifts, while in the second step I observe the visual language of more than 1,100 ethnological and applied arts gifts. The analysis is based on primary sources (the gifts themselves, interviews with curators, archive materials, various original documents, exhibitions) and secondary sources (previous researches on cultural exchanges between the countries of the Non-Aligned Movement). The collected materials are approached using the theory of representation and the practical method of visual semiology. In Part I, I investigate the meanings inherent to the motifs of the artworks, i.e. how non-aligned countries presented themselves outwardly (along the axes of meaning relative to essentialism/constructivism, traditionalism/ progressivism, exoticisation/emancipation, local/global, political/ non-political, gender dichotomies, etc.). In addition, I preliminarily explore the artistic expressiveness of these works (figuration/abstraction, various techniques and materials, etc.). In Part II, I divide the second, much larger group of ethnological and applied arts gifts into four big sub-groups: gifts linked to contemporary cottage industry and gifts from the recent past (the cultural code is the beauty of tradition); archaeological gifts (the cultural code is glorious pre-colonial past); gifts combining domestic and foreign elements (cultural code is glocalisation); gifts consisting of a variety of animal trophies, precious metals and stones (cultural code is natural riches). Subsequently, I compare the visual language of artworks presented as gifts with the visual language of ethnological and applied arts gifts, noting similarities (nature, traditionalism, non-political and anti-modernist character) and differences (aesthetics, ways of portraying political leaders, exclusiveness of ethnological and applied arts gifts). In the final part of the chapter, I problematise the unexpected persistence of the colonial discourse in the post-colonial period, which is expressed through the selection of gifts presented by Non-Aligned leaders and delegations to Tito, and manifestations of the enormous disjuncture between the imperative of social modernisation and the folkloristic essence of these gifts.
    Vir: The culture of the non-aligned : the clash of cultural and political narratives (Str. 131-171, 255-256, 264-265)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del
    Leto - 2023
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 164863235
    DOI

Vnos na polico