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The Croatian scientist, art pedagogue and writer seeks to clarify the rules of the grammar of artificial attractions to the reader by specifically grouping his fascinating insights and examining them from an often unexpected angle.
This book is a professional study that deals with folk (traditional) art in the former Yugoslavia.
A collection of essays by a distinguished Croatian art historian, exploring the symbolism of animals in art, folklore, and mythology, connecting ancient traditions with their reflection in fine art and culture.
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.
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.
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.