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Book SynopsisIn the 1970s, Yugoslavia emerged as a dynamic environment for conceptual and performance art. At the same time, it pursued its own form of political economy of socialist self-management.
Alienation Effects argues that a deep relationship existed between the democratization of the arts and industrial democracy, resulting in a culture difficult to classify.
Trade Review“A brilliant and much-needed book relevant to debates in art andperformance away from hackneyed Western European/American ideasof neoliberalism and late capitalism—or the tendency to ignore shifts inpolitical and economic structures altogether while mystifying trends inart. One of the most rigorous and original books on performance. . . .In a way that few academic books achieve, it movingly weaves personalhistory with incisively theorized political, economic, and art/performancehistories.” - Amelia Jones, McGill University
