Presents Bogdan Bogdanovic's built oeuvre through his own
eyes, in a selection of nearly fifty, recently discovered colour
photographs of his memorials.
Bogdan Bogdanovic (1922-2010) was a Yugoslav architect, theorist, professor, and
a one-time mayor of Belgrade. His idiosyncratic memorials to the victims and heroes
of World War II, scattered around the former Yugoslavia, continue to attract attention
today, more than twenty-five years after the country's collapse. The monuments,
cemeteries, mausoleums, memorial parks, necropolises, cenotaphs and other sites
of memory Bogdanovic designed between the early 1950s and late 1970s occupy
a unique place in the history of modern architecture, redrawing the boundaries
between architecture, landscape, and sculpture in varied and unexpected ways.
This book presents Bogdanovic's built oeuvre through his own eyes, in a selection
of nearly fifty colour photographs of his memorials, which the architect took soon after
the completion of each project. Carefully staged and taken with professional medium- format cameras, these photos, many of them previously unpublished, are in themselves
works of art that bespeak their author's surrealist sensibility. The book includes an
introduction by the architectural historian Vladimir Kulic, a preface by curator Martino
Stierli, and a selection of Bogdanovic's own thoughts on photography, excerpted from
an unpublished interview that Kulicćconducted in 2005.
Text by:
Bogdan Bogdanovic, Vladimir Kulic Foreword by:
Martino Stierli Edited by:
Vladimir Kulic, Wolfgang Thaler Imprint: Museum of Modern Art Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 255mm,
Width: 202mm,
Weight: 640g ISBN:9781633450523 ISBN 10: 163345052X Pages: 112 Publication Date:05 July 2018 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active