Ćosić, Bora.

[FLUXUS IN YUGOSLAVIA] Mixed Media.

Belgrade: Nezavisno autorsko izdanje (self-published), 1970. Square quarto (26 × 26 cm). Original string-bound decorative wrappers; 104 pp. Illustrations throughout, including numerous full-page photographs, with some printed on differently colored or patterned stock. Wrappers somewhat dust-soiled; else about very good. Item #55351

An influential neo-avant-garde pro-Fluxus volume of writing and photo collages by the Serbo-Croatian and Yugoslav writer, translator, and dissident Bora Ćosić (b.1932). The volume includes designs by Russian avant-garde artists such as Sonia Delaunay and Vladimir Tatlin, fragments of Bauhaus and Dada texts, documentation of works of Fluxus artists such as Dick Higgins and Emmett Williams, among others. Attached to the string binding of the volume is a kind of book mark which contains the table of contents. Starting with his translation of the Russian Futurists, Ćosić was one of the first to research historical avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, publishing the first reprints of the Dadaist magazines Dada Tank and Dada Jazz. Ćosić also edited independent journals throughout the 1960s for which he produced experimental writing. In 1969–1970 he published the mixed media journal "Rok" which was “both an art magazine and a work of art”. Art historian Miško Šuvaković writes: “In the theoretical sense and in terms of concept, Rok was the pinnacle of the Belgrade neo-avant-garde, joining together, within the integral context of a magazine, experiments in literature, essay, poetry, painting, and music, referencing the international strategies of neo-Dada and Fluxus” (See Dubravka Djurić and Miško Šuvaković eds. Impossible Histories: Historical Avant-Gardes, Neo-avant-gardes, and Post-avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918–1991, p. 28). This volume, a kind of an artist book, is a culmination of his work on Rok. A strong opponent of Serbian nationalism, Ćosić moved to Berlin in 1992.

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