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The collection includes essays and criticisms dedicated to the visual arts, written over several decades. The focus of these texts is on the visual arts, with an emphasis on Croatian and European artists, and on the relationship between art and ideology.
Milan Pelc's scholarly study explores the role of illustrated leaflets and 17th-century graphics. Through the analysis of visual media, religious, political, and social processes of the early modern era are revealed.
Through these "miniatures", the author brings the reader closer to the world of different traditions, emphasizing the beauty, mysticism, and complexity of Islamic culture, but also universal themes such as transience, identity, and the meaning of life.
Leonida Kovač's discourse is explicit and direct, almost bodily. It fills and disrupts space. Her theory mimics the work of the performative, it is active. It takes place in one moment and one place of utterance/pronunciation.
What you have before you is not an ordinary collection – it is a vibrant, multidisciplinary map of a specific intellectual and artistic world: 20th-century Zagreb culture, seen through the prism of "Luddism" as a key, programmatic category.
Along with the traditional (old) disciplines that deal ex professo with the world of art - aesthetics, poetics, theory and philosophy of art - the discipline of sociology of art has emerged and developed strongly, especially in our century.