![]() ![]() Surveyed here is a wide range of topics: from city building and state representation, to the typologies of everyday life. This book explores the historical “in-betweenness” of Yugoslav modernism and the strategies architects used to mediate different-sometimes directly opposed-concepts of culture and architecture. ![]() As a result, it produced a diverse body of architecture that defies easy classification and blurs the lines between the established categories of modernism. Socialist Yugoslavia was a country suspended between traditional cultures, competing concepts of modernization, and rivaling Cold War blocs. A tour de force display of more than four hundred photographs, architectural models, maps, graphs, videos, and installations, “Toward a Concrete Utopia” dazzles its viewers with seductive narratives of anti-fascism embodied in hybrid buildings that amalgamate influences of the Ottoman and Habsburg empires as well as various Western modernisms in the service of Yugoslavia’s socialist revolution. Co-curated by Martino Stierli and Vladimir Kulić, “Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980” argues that social programs, collectivism, internationalism, and the freedom to experiment shaped the development of architecture in Yugoslavia, and that its distinctive socialist modernism was founded on the project of building a more just and diverse society. “And it’s not that there are no individuals who are nationalists, or racists,” she wrote, “but that the taking of a state position against nationalism, against racism is what makes it possible for a society like this to function.” The extraordinarily rigorous and thought-provoking exhibition of Yugoslav architecture, on view at New York’s Museum of Modern Art through January 13, similarly positions socialism as the political foundation for a multinational and anti-nationalist society. ![]() 10% discount in the MoMA Stores and at 1976, black feminist poet and theorist Audre Lorde published “Notes from a Trip to Russia,” in which she marveled at the apparent harmony among diverse ethnicities in the Soviet Union.Free Shipping every day on online orders of $35 or more.Categories, benefits, and prices are subject to change. Member benefits are for personal, noncommercial use only. Memberships are not refundable or transferable. To learn more call (888) 999-8861, Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. Exclusions apply.Īdditional membership categories are available. Surcharges may apply for oversized or special items. Members at the Access category and above get free standard shipping in the contiguous 48 states on purchases over $35. ![]() Members save 10% every day and 20% during Member Shopping Days. Members save 20% on their first purchase. Experience the very best of MoMA as a member! ![]()
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