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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.
Of all the arts, classical music is the most fulfilling. Listening to music has, more than any other human experience — except perhaps falling in love — the power to evoke the deepest emotions.
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.
The work deals with the question of the meaning of art in an age when traditional values and aesthetic canons are being questioned.
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.
*Public Opinion / Art and the Crowd* is a Croatian translation of two shorter studies by the Italian sociologist, criminologist, and publicist Scipio Sighele (1868–1913), one of the pioneers of crowd psychology and collective psychology.