Yugoslav: Toponym or Ideology in Miodrag B. Protić’s Art-Historical Systematization of 20th-Century Art

Abstract

Prispevek analizira ideološki kontekst in zgodovinske okoliščine, v katerih je Miodrag B. Protić snoval in realiziral umetnostnozgodovinsko sistematizacijo pred- in povojne jugoslovanske umetnosti. Avtorica problematizira koncept »jugoslovansko« v sintagmi »jugoslovanska moderna umetnost« in ga interpretira kot večpomenko. Prispevek obravnava učinke različnih diskurzov o »jugoslavizmih« na Protićevo razumevanje koncepta.The article analyzes the ideological context and historical circumstances in which Miodrag B. Protić initiated and realized the art-historical systematization of 20thcentury art from the territory of pre- and postwar Yugoslavia. The concept of “Yugoslav” in the syntagm “Yugoslav modern art” is problematized, interpreted here as a polysemy whose meanings were produced by various discourses about Yugoslavism; the effects of those found in Protić’s articulations are mapped and examined