<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">20th Century Heritage</div>book promotion<div class="">KIC, Zagreb, March 28, 2025 at 5 p.m.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">topics: </div><div class="">Socialist Yugoslavia, Decoloniality and the Non-Aligned Movement<br class="">The Praxis School 1963 - 1974<br class="">Bernardo Bernardi <br class="">Yugoslav Art Colonies<br class="">International Artists’ Meetings in Vela Luka 1968 - 1972 <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">free download: <a data-cke-saved-href="http://sivazona.hr/images/novi-dokumenti/20th_Century_Heritage.pdf" href="http://sivazona.hr/images/novi-dokumenti/20th_Century_Heritage.pdf" target="_blank" class="">link</a><br class=""><p class="">The book <em class="">20th Century Heritage</em> points to good cultural and
artistic practices from the history of the 20th century. As part of the
book promotion, a conversation will be held with the participation of
Darko Fritz, Ljiljana Kolešnik and Paul Stubbs. The publisher is Grey
Area from Korčula, and the editor and designer is Darko Fritz. The
authors of the texts are Darko Fritz, Ljiljana Kolešnik, Ante Marinović,
Sani Sardelić, Paul Stubbs and Mislav Žitko. </p><p class="">The
book was created as a hybrid form of the proceedings of a symposium
held in Korčula in 2022 and a presentation of Igor Grubić's art project <em class="">Untitled (Praxis)</em>,
which is exhibited at 25 locations across Europe during 2022, all as
part of the Who Cares? project with the support of Creative Europe. The
96-page book presents texts in English with 60 color illustrations. A
free copy will be available to all interested parties at the promotion.<br class=""><br class="">Using
an interdisciplinary approach, the symposium and publication explore
the cultural and geopolitical context of two of the most significant
international gatherings on the island of Korčula, the Korčula Summer
School (1963-1974) and the International Artists' Meetings in Vela Luka
(1968-1972). Critical thinkers around the journal Praxis and the Korčula
Summer School developed a unique trajectory of humanistic Marxism and
social analysis in the context of socialist, self-governing and
non-aligned Yugoslavia, and created a place for the exchange of critical
views between East and West in the context of the Cold War. Mislav
Žitko analyzes the social antagonisms that were at the heart of Praxis
philosophy. Paul Stubbs examines the Yugoslav context, decoloniality and
the Non-Aligned Movement. Ljiljana Kolešnik presents the rich history
of the development of art colonies in Yugoslavia, once the country with
the most art colonies in the world, and Darko Fritz points to the
example of one colony - the International Artists' Meetings in Vela
Luka. It began as a colony of visual artists working in the medium of
mosaic, but through the next two editions it developed into the fields
of interdisciplinary synthesis of different artistic disciplines,
urbanism, architecture and finally a multimedia approach that includes
mass media and the participation of the local population. Sculptor Ante
Marinović, a participant in the International Meeting of Visual Artists
in Vela Luka, presents Luka Mozaika, a project of creating mosaics in
public space, which is being realized with the community. Sani Sardelić
presents the circumstances of the event 100 years after the birth of
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