SCULPTRESSES AS AGENTS OF ABSTRACTION IN POST-WORLD WAR II SERBIA: A GENDERED VIEW ON MEMORIAL PRODUCTION*
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modern sculpture, abstraction, memorial sculpture, gender, Ana Bešlić, Olga Jančić, Olga JevrićAbstract
This paper examines the work of three Belgrade-based sculptresses Ana Bešlić, Olga Jančić and Olga Jevrić in the 1950s that was characterized by a shift toward abstraction in the context of memorial sculpture. Through analyses of their exploration into abstraction and the confrontation expressed against the dominant practices of memorialization in post-WW2 Serbia and Yugoslavia, the position of these women artists will be discussed from a perspective of gender, questioning the strategies of the patriarchal value system that characterized the local art world in this period.
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