Denegri, Ješa et al., editors.

[YUGOSLAV AVANT-GARDE – NEO-AVANT-GARDE] Moment: časopis za vizuelne medije [Moment: magazine of visual media]. Nos. 1–24 in twenty fascicles (all published).

Belgrade: Niro/NIP dečje novine: 1984–1991. Small quartos (28.5 × 20 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with ca. 50–80 pp. per issue. Illustrations throughout. Light soil to wrappers; one issue with minor wear to lower spine; else very good. Item #55369

Complete run of this Yugoslav contemporary art journal, published 1984–1991 and edited by the art historian and curator Ješa Denegri. A statement from the editorial team in the opening issue expressed that while much art is being created in Yugoslavia, knowledge and information about art past and present is lacking in the country. The aim of Moment was to fill this gap. The editors also announced a multi-disciplinary agenda. “Moment is a magazine that will deal with the widest idea of the visual. It will therefore deal not only with art but with everything that surrounds us (visually): architecture, photography, film, rock, fashion, design, comics, video and television, but also sports…” Reflecting this agenda, the first issue opened with articles on the historical avant-garde, such as a tribute to the Serbian-Yugoslav avant-garde artist Mihajlo Petrov, coverage of the exhibition of the avant-garde journal Zenit (1921–1923), with discussions of Constructivism, Futurism, and the Bauhaus. More contemporary features included reviews of the London exhibition of the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe, discussions of TV and video presentations of David Bowie, land art by Robert Smithson, and an article on the legacy of Yves Klein. Projected as a quarterly publication, it was in fact published irregularly in the first few years, with twenty volumes printed in all.

The chief editor of the magazine, Ješa Denegri, was a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade starting in 1965. Throughout the 1970s he was also involved in the activities of the Student Cultural Center (SKC) in Belgrade. Established in 1971 in response to the 1968 student protests, the SKC became the nexus of neo-avant-garde artistic activity in Yugoslavia. The SKC gallery hosted exhibitions of top international contemporary artists and helped launch international careers of domestic artists such as Marina Abramović. Denegri also curated the Yugoslav exhibits at the Paris and Venice Biennales throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Issues of Moment included coverage of the Paris Biennale and the Venice Biennale, discussing all the trends in contemporary art. The cover of vol.5 (1986) features a photo of a performance by Maina Abramović and Ulay, with an extensive article about their work in the issue. Other major figures in the editorial team included Bojana Pejić, Slobodan Mijuškovic, Lidija Merenik, Jovan Despotović, and Momčilo Rajin.

Nos. 1, 2 (1984); No. 3–4 (1985); Nos. 5, 6–7 (1986); No. 8 (1987); Nos. 9, 10, 11–12 (1988); Nos. 13, 14, 15–16 (1989); Nos. 17, 18, 19, 20 (1990); No. 21, 22, 23–24 (1991).

As of October 2025, KVK, OCLC show holdings of only one issue for 1988, with none located in North America.

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