- Publisher: *cf.
- 640 pages
- Author: Miklavž Komelj
- Original title: Kako misliti partizansko umetnost?
This book is not conceived as yet another overview of partisan art but asks how art created in the revolutionary context of the Slovenian National Liberation Struggle (1941–1945) enables reflection on the fundamental relation between art and politics – and how it can also help us with our critical reflection on the contemporary art practices that are defined as political. The discussion focuses especially on the inner tensions and contradictions of the partisan art practices, which were reflected as such during the struggle, specifically, on the problematisation of the institution of art conditioned by the emergence of mass anonymous art production related to the concept of a cultural revolution; the tension between “avant-garde” tendencies and “popularity”, the reflection on the relation between “pure” and “political” art, and similar issues.
Miklavž Komelj
Miklavž Komelj (b. 1973) is a poet, writer, essayist, translator and art historian. He has published several books of poetry, prose works, a verse drama, books for children, and some scholarly and essayist works. He also translates from different languages (including Juana Inés de la Cruz, Petar Petrović Njegoš, Fernando Pessoa, César Vallejo, Djuna Barnes, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Alejandra Pizarnik). He has had three solo painting exhibitions. He has edited Collected Poems by Jure Detela, and two books of previously uncollected Srečko Kosovel’s writings, Let Me Be Unknown to All. Slovenska matica has published his debut novel, Cover Me, Snow.
Irene Mislej (b. 1946 in Buenos Aires to Slovenian parents) attended a Spanish and English primary school, and graduated from a grammar school, Colego nacional de Vicente Lopez, in 1963. She studied journalism and radio broadcasting, and art history in Buenos Aires. She contributed to different newspapers as a journalist. After returning to Slovenia in 1978, she first lived in Ljubljana, where she earned a PhD in art history in 1987 at the Faculty of Arts, and was then the head of Pilon Gallery of Ajdovščina for eighteen years, organising his art estate, researching his opus as well as work by his contemporaries, evaluating his correspondence and publishing parts of it. She concluded her expert gallery work as a senior curator. She also researched Pilon’s family tree and edited the memories given by his son and others testifiers. She put up exhibitions of his opus, both in Pilon’s home gallery and in other institutions, and she participated in a retrospective exhibition of his work in Ljubljana Modern Gallery and in his anthology exhibitions in Italy, France and Austria.
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