Vesna Pavlović Stagecraft
Available through Vanderbilt University Press , 2021
“The visual sequence of Stagecraft unfolds as a cluster of photographic reflections, opening to its readers and viewers the road of nostalgia towards the “better past”, or provoking differentiated critical thoughts on history and its “staging in pictures”. The uncanny spaces of Hotels offer a deadpan gaze to the “ceremonial interiors” of the Palace of Federation of Yugoslavia and Chase Manhattan bank in New York, telling the stories of and about the XX century trough a particular aesthetics inspired by Cold War ideologies. These images are witness to the crisis of modernity and socialism in our contemporary encounter with the endless process of transition to global capitalism.”
Vesna Pavlović’s Lost Art : Photography, Display and Archive
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Designed by Stephanie Sauer of artlyrics, Vesna Pavlović’s Lost Art: Photography, Display, and the Archive, contextualizes Pavlović’s photographs and installations in relationship to art history, the legacy of the Cold War in Eastern Europe, and contemporary display practices. Edited by Morna O’Neill (Wake Forest University), it features five essays by award-winning art historians and curators (Paul Bright, Catherine Carl, John Jay Curley, Morna O’Neill, Kristina Wilson) as well as an artist’s portfolio. This book is the inaugural offering in an ambitious new publication program undertaken by the Hanes Art Gallery, the venue for contemporary art at Wake Forest University.