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*Nova slika, Clio, [[Beograd]], [[2006]]. ISBN 86-7102-236-6
*Nova slika, Clio, [[Beograd]], [[2006]]. ISBN 86-7102-236-6
*Za bolji put Srbije, (co-author), Demokratska stranka, Centar resornih odbora, [[Beograd]], [[2006]]. ISBN 86-7856-001-0
*Za bolji put Srbije, (co-author), Demokratska stranka, Centar resornih odbora, [[Beograd]], [[2006]]. ISBN 86-7856-001-0
*Madlena, ''Zepter internacional'', [[Milano]], [[Paris]], [[2006]]
*[[Slobodan Trajkovic]], Metamorfoze, Prodajna galerija Beograd, [[Beograd]], [[2007]]. ISBN 978-86-84393-41-4
*[[Slobodan Trajkovic]], Metamorfoze, Prodajna galerija Beograd, [[Beograd]], [[2007]]. ISBN 978-86-84393-41-4
*Evgenija Demnievska, Discours sur les utopies du modernisme, Art Pavillion 'Cvijeta Zuzoric', [[Belgrade]], [[2007]]. ISBN 978-86-82765-45-5
*Evgenija Demnievska, Discours sur les utopies du modernisme, Art Pavillion 'Cvijeta Zuzoric', [[Belgrade]], [[2007]]. ISBN 978-86-82765-45-5

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Jovan Despotovic
File:Portret jovan despotovic.jpg.JPG
Portrait of Jovan Despotovic
Born1952, Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
Known forart historian, art critic

Jovan Despotovic (Serbian Latinic: Jovan Despotović, Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Деспотовић) (born 16 April 1952) is a Serbian art historian and art critic. Lives in Belgrade.

Biography

Jovan Despotovic was born and raised in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia, today Republic of Serbia. He received a degree in Art History from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade in 1976. He was a curator of Legacy Art, Salon MSU and the Collection of Sculpture at Belgrade’s Museum of Contemporary Art and from 1981-2001, at the same time he was the director of the Department of Art Collections and Exhibitions.

From 2001-2004, Despotovic was the Deputy Minister of Culture for the Republic of Serbia. He was also director for the protection of cultural heritage at the Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija. Since 2004, he has been editor of the Cultural and Information Desk at Third Programme of Radio Belgrade and Radio-Television Serbia.

Despotovic is a well-known presence in Belgrade’s art and culture scene, which includes the Open Society Institute, Center for Cultural Decontamination and the Auction House Madl’Art. Prepared by 300 authors show in Serbia, former Yugoslavia and abroad. He was the Yugoslav Commissioner at the 7th International Small Sculpture Exhibition in Budapest, 1987, and the 22nd Biennale in Sao Paolo in 1994.

Area of Interest

Despotovic is a consummate art historian with wide-ranging interests in contemporary and recent arts. He has published over 2,000 articles, critical reviews, and essays and is the founder and editor of numerous journals: Sveske (ed. Association of Art Historians of Serbia), Vreme umetnosti (special supplement of the Vreme weekly), Treći program (ed. Radio Belgrade), Moment. His work has been translated into French, English, German, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Macedonian and Albanian.

New Now - New Wave

Published art criticism and articles since 1978. At the beginning of eighties, together with a group of young Serbian artists in Belgrade: Milovan Destil Marković, Vlasta Vulcano Mikic, Tahir Lusic, Nada Alavanja, Tafil Musovic, Mrdjan Bajic, Slobodan Trajkovic etc., as a art critic, Despotovic participated in the creation and development of New Wave in art and culture which opposed to traditional creativity in all areas - from visual arts to rock music, from theater to fashion and others. With numerous writings and art exhibitions Despotovic contributed to this movement known as a New Image Painting (Nova Slika) to became very known in Serbia, former Yugoslavia and abroad.

Cultural Policy

Since the turn of the century, Despotovic has been extremely interested in cultural policy, an active movement for political change and changes in arts and culture. The effort to establish a new, democratic order in the 1990s brought together many intellectuals, artists, NGOs, etc. For his contributions, Despotovic was named Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Culture during Zoran Djindjic’s term as Prime Minister. He made a lasting contribution to the renewal of institutions, ministerial staffing, legislation of cultural activities and increased international cooperation. A special area of interest for him was the advancement of contemporary artistic production and the institutions engaged in it. He has made a significant contribution to the protection of Serbia’s cultural heritage, especially in Kosovo following the arrival of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo

Books and Monographs (selection)

  • Art of the Eighties, (co-author), Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, 1983
  • Vera Božičković Popović, Umetnički paviljon 'Cvijeta Zuzorić', Beograd, 1984
  • Svetomir Arsić-Basara, Umetnički paviljon 'Cvijeta Zuzorić', Beograd, 1984-1985
  • Sava Šumanović, Jugoslovenska galerija umetničkih dela, Beograd, 1986. ISBN 86-82857-01-4
  • Darija Kačić, Dubravka Duba Sambolec, Aneta Svetieva, 7th International Small Sculpture Exhibition of Budapest, Budapest, 1987, pp.138–143. ISBN 963-7402-07-1
  • Picture and information 1945-1989, Serbian photography 1839-1989, Gallery SANU, Belgrade, 1991, pp. 122-126
  • Mića Popović – crteži 1941-1988, (ed), Mrlješ, Beograd, 1994
  • Zdravko Joksimovic, 22nd Bienal of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 1994
  • Dragoslav Djordjević (ed), Clio, Beograd, 1996
  • A Saudade de Anica Vučetić, Museu de Arte Contemporanea da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 1995-1996
  • Sreten Stojanović, Jugoslovenska galerija umetničkih dela, Beograd, 1998
  • Umetnost i angažovanost devedesetih, 20th memorijal 'Nadežde Petrović', Umetnička galerija 'Nadežda Petrović', Čačak, 1998
  • Restoration of art, reconstruction criticism: criticism of art of the eighties, 'The art at the end of the century I', Clio, Belgrade, 1998
  • Dossier Serbien, Aktiver Widerstand, Zentrum für Kulturelle Dekontamination, Čedomir Vasiċ, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2000
  • Dossier Serbien, Aktiver Widerstand, Zentrum für Kulturelle Dekontamination, Čedomir Vasiċ, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien, 2001
  • From Fattorini to Morandi, National Museum, Belgrade, 2001, La Collezione Grieco, Pinacoteca Provinciale, Bari, 2002. ISBN 88-7329-017-5
  • Živko Grozdanić Gera, (co-author), Umetnička galerija 'Nadežda Petrović', Čačak, Centar za savremenu kulturu Konkordija, Vršac, Greelery Square Gallery, New York, 2002
  • Svetomir Arsić Basara, Or a foreword inevitably intended as an epilogue, Serbian Academy of Siences and Arts, Belgrade, National and Universty Library 'Ivo Andrić', Priština, 2004. ISBN 86-7935-076-1
  • Old Now, Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade, 2004. ISBN 86-84235-15-0
  • Čedomir Vasić, Red data book, Umetnička galerija 'Nadežda Petrović', Čačak, 2004. ISBN 86-83783-08-1
  • Old Now, Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade, 2004
  • Led art 1993-2003 - dokumenta, (co-author), Multimedijalni centar LED ART, Novi Sad, 2004
  • Nagrada za umetnost 'Mića Popović', 10 godina Galerije Haos, Umetnički paviljon 'Cvijeta Zuzorić', Beograd, 2005. ISBN 86-906951-0-9
  • Nova slika, Clio, Beograd, 2006. ISBN 86-7102-236-6
  • Za bolji put Srbije, (co-author), Demokratska stranka, Centar resornih odbora, Beograd, 2006. ISBN 86-7856-001-0
  • Madlena, Zepter internacional, Milano, Paris, 2006
  • Slobodan Trajkovic, Metamorfoze, Prodajna galerija Beograd, Beograd, 2007. ISBN 978-86-84393-41-4
  • Evgenija Demnievska, Discours sur les utopies du modernisme, Art Pavillion 'Cvijeta Zuzoric', Belgrade, 2007. ISBN 978-86-82765-45-5
  • Nebojša Mitrić, Spomen zbirka Pavla Beljanskog, Novi Sad, 2007. ISBN 978-86-906563-6-3
  • Gently and firmly, Galerija Zvono, Beograd, 2008
  • Milovan Destil Marković, monograph (co-author), Umetnička galerija 'Nadežda Petrović', Čačak, 2008. ISBN 976-86-83783-25-0
  • Živko Grozdanić Gera, 'Meteorska kiša', Biro za kulturu i komunikaciju, Vršac, 2008. ISBN 978-86-907379-3-2
  • Živojin Turinski - Radovi 1958-1967, Kulturni centar Beograda, Beograd, 2009. ISBN 978-86-7996-033-7
  • Umesto pogovora, Dosije Srbija - aktivizam devedesetih, 'Koletivizam posle modernizma', (afterword Serbian edition in the 'Collectivism after modernism', University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2007. ISBN 978-08166-4461-2), Clio, Beograd, 2010. ISBN 978-86-7102-376-4
  • Pažnja kritika, 50 godina Oktobarskog salona, Kulturni centar Beograda, Beograd, 2009. ISBN 978-86-7996-035-1
  • Ljubomir Erić, Kolekcija crteža, Arhipelag, Beograd, 2010. ISBN 978-86-86933-67-6
  • Milena Jeftić Ničeva Kostić, ULUS, Beograd, 2010. ISBN 978-86-82765-62-2
  • Pohvala stilu, Madlena, Decenije, Zepter Book Word, Beograd, 2010. ISBN 978-86-7494-117-1

Bibliography (selection)

On Art

  • 'Synthetic Landscapes' Sveske, no. 11-12, Serbian Association of Art Historians, Belgrade, 1981
  • 'Furious paint strokes', Književne novine, Belgrade, 1982
  • Open art, Politika Ekspres, Belgrade, 1982
  • Belgrade's new painting, Pitanja, Zagreb, 1983
  • Art of the 80s: Belgrade New Painting, Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 1983
  • On two aspects of Postmodernism, Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 1983
  • The values of Modernism, Politika ekspres, Belgrade, 1983
  • From traditional to Postmodernism, Photokino review, no. 10, Belgrade, 1983
  • Aux maniere fin de siècle, Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 1984
  • Art in eighties: postmodern challenges to the sign and/or affirmation, Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 1984
  • Colorist expressionism in Yugoslav painting 1900-1941, Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 1984
  • Yugoslav sculpture after 1950, Sveske, no, 16, Association of Art Historians of Serbia, Belgrade, 1985
  • Between art and kitsch, Jedinstvo, Priština, 1985
  • Belgrade eighties - Pygmalion mask or character of Oedipus, Moment, no. 3-4, Belgrade, 1985-1986
  • No name: Geometry, Moment, no. 6-7, Beograd, 1986
  • Polycentric mutations - News and repetition, Moment, no. 6-7, Beograd, 1986
  • Vladimir Veličković, Umetnost 86, no. 68-69, new series 1-2, Beograd, 1987
  • Meetings and allocations, Odjek, Sarajevo, 1987
  • Gaze of hidden relationships, Letopis Matice srpske,Novi Sad, 1987
  • Photography and Contemporary Art (A view from the eighties), Braničevo, no. 5, Požarevac, 1987
  • Verbumprogram AG, Moment, no. 10, Belgrade, 1988
  • Sculpture of identity: An example - Mrdjan Bajic, Moment, no. 13, Belgrade, 1989
  • Young Belgrade sculptors, Moment, no. 18, Beograd, 1990
  • 'Living tradition', Moment, no. 17, Beograd, 1990
  • ’Forma occidit’, Moment, no. 22, Belgrade, 1991
  • Materialità – geometry field, Moment, no. 21, Belgrade, 1991
  • 'Eastern paradigm' in Belgrade, Kulture istoka, no. 28, Belgrade, 1991
  • National issue in contemporary Serbian painting - Introduction, Projeka(r), no. 3, Novi Sad, 1994
  • Experiences from Memory, Politika, Belgrade, 1995
  • Smart Media, Politika, Belgrade, 1995
  • Geometric abstraction, Politika, Belgrade, 1995-1996
  • 'The hand that salutes', Vreme, Belgrade, 1996
  • From soft letters from soft to rigid thinking, Treći program, no. 107-108, Radio Beograd, Beograd, 1996
  • Zenit of modernism, Vreme, Belgrade, 1996
  • The primacy of form, Vreme, Belgrade, 1996
  • Postmodern dialogue, Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Beograd, 1996
  • Late modernism, Košava, no. 34-35, Vršac, 1997
  • Minimal gestual expression, Naša borba, Belgrade, 1998
  • Global change, Naša borba, Belgrade, 1998
  • Belgrade on the map of art, Naša borba, Belgrade, 1998
  • Language of New Creativity, Jedinstvo, Priština, 1998
  • Speech of actions and paste, Danas, Belgrade, 1998
  • Quadrifolium criticus, Danas, Belgrade, 1998
  • Spatial Narratives, Jedinstvo, Priština, 1998
  • The puzzles of sense, Danas, Belgrade, 1998
  • Art Advertising, Danas, Belgrade, 1999
  • Informel playground, Danas, Belgrade, 1999
  • After the fire, Pobjeda, Podgorica, 1999
  • Virtual crossover, Republika, Belgrade, no.226, 1999
  • Voices of the New Century, Književne novine, (war issue), Belgrade, 1999
  • Social realism or romantic realism, Danas, Belgrade, 2000
  • Seven theses of recent Serbian sculpture, Treći program, Radio-Belgrade, Belgrade, 2000
  • Love, Vreme, Belgrade, 2000
  • Art of reality, Treći program, Radio-Belgrade, Belgrade, 2000
  • Culture of political marketing, Republika, no.246, Belgrade, 2000
  • Wandering in the gardens of many flowers, Danas, Belgrade, 2000
  • Passionate critical attention, Treći program, no. 111, Belgrade, 2001
  • Radical geometric abstractions, Culture, art, science, Politika, Belgrade, 2004
  • Leader of the revolutionary reversal, Treći program, no. 123-124, Belgrade, 2004
  • Mirko Ilić, Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 2005
  • Poetics of a free man, Culture, Arts and Science, Politika, Belgrade, 2005
  • Situated Self, Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 2005
  • Neomodernistic utopia, Culture, Arts and Science, Politika, Beograd, 2005
  • New Image Painting of the Eighties, Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 2006 pp.239–246
  • Miroslav Pavlović: 'Dimensional Works', Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 2008
  • De Stil Marković and New Image Painting of Eighties, I-III, Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 2008
  • Rise in white, Kultura, umetnost, nauka, Politika, Belgrade, 2008
  • Originally as an unfulfilled goal of art, Treći program, Radio Beograd, Beograd, 2008
  • Bora Iljovski, Treći program, Radio Beograd, Beograd, 2008
  • Nesa Paripović, Treći program, Radio Beograda, Beograd, 2008
  • Interpretation of informel, Branko Protić, works 1956-1966, Treći program, Radio Beograd, Beograd, 2008

On Cultural Policy

  • Mića Popović, Ahitektura/urbanizam, no. 96, Belgrade, 1985
  • On the verge of rejection, Moment, no. 10, Belgrade, 1988
  • Mića Popović, Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 1989
  • Incorruptible witness of time, Jedinstvo, Priština, 1989
  • Socialist realism in Serbia 1945-1950, Moment, no.17, Belgrade, 1990
  • Art - politics - ideology, Moment, no. 18, Belgrade, 1990
  • European talk, Vreme umetnosti, no. 1, Belgrade, 1994
  • War museology, Vreme umetnosti, no. 6, Belgrade, 1995
  • Art and commitment, Republika, Belgrade, 1997
  • Marina Abramović, ’Fin de siecle’ - Balkan way, Borba, Belgrade, 1997
  • Arti i rezistenës, Zeri, Priština, 1997
  • Gjurmë, M, no. 6-7, Priština, 1997
  • Open book of the past, Naša borba, Belgrade, 1998
  • Art of the 'Second Serbia', Razgledi-Delo, Ljubljana, 1998
  • Aesthetic ideology in its own ruins, Danas, Belgrade, 1999
  • Individual culture of protest, Prava čoveka, Leskovac, 1999
  • Off-artistic scene, Danas, Belgrade, 1999
  • Proti državi kiča, Delo, Ljubljana, 1999
  • Serbian dossie, Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 2000
  • View in 2000, Republika. no. 228-229, Belgrade, 2000
  • Greetings from Serbia, Republika, no. 233, Belgrade, 2000
  • Cultural YU alternative (2) – Repression and Challenges, Identitet, no.45, Zagreb, 2000
  • In the last century, Republika, Belgrade, no. 252-253, 2001
  • Measuring the reality of the nineties, Politika, Belgrade, 2001
  • It started with 'Antywall', Politika, Belgrade, 2001
  • Heritage as a national policy commitments, Politika, Belgrade, 2001
  • Some questions (new) cultural policy, Moment (new series), no. 1, Pančevo, 2003
  • Strategy instead of a decree, NIN, Belgrade, 2004
  • The defense attacked Arts, Treći program, no. 121-122, Belgrade, 2004
  • Ješa Denegri, 'The survival of art in times of danger', Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 2005
  • Cultural policy and the transition I – Private galleries, Ten years of Gallery 'Chaos', Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 2005
  • Cultural policy and the transition II – Očuvanje kulturne baštine I, Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 2005
  • Cultural policy and the transition III – Restitution of Cultural Property, Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 2005
  • Cultural policy and the transition IV, Comparative legislation, part I-II, Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 2005
  • Cultural policy and the transition V, Problems of protection of cultural heritage on Kosovo and Metohija, part I-II, Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 2005
  • Cultural policy and the transition VI, The problems of reconstruction and protection of the Monastery Hilandar, Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 2005
  • Modernism and primitivism, Culture, Arts and Science, Politika, Belgrade, 2005
  • Meteor Rain, Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 2005
  • Balint Sombati, Treći program, Radio Belgrade, Belgrade, 2005

Articles on International Art (selection)

Curatorial Exhibitions (selection)

  • New Now, Gallery Pinki, Belgrade, 1982
  • The art of the eighties (co-author), Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, 1983
  • Jugoslavian Nykytaidetta, Alvar Aalto museet, Oslo, 1984
  • Jugoslavisk Nutidskonst, Taidehalli, Helsinki, 1984
  • Sava Šumanović, Jugoslovenska galerija umetničkih dela, Beograd, 1986. ISBN 86-82857-01-4
  • 7th International Small Sculpture Exhibition of Budapest, Palace of Exhibitions, Budapest, 1987. ISBN 963-7402-07-1
  • Picture and information 1945-1989, Gallery SANU, Belgrade, 1991
  • 22nd Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, 1994
  • Summary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, 1995–1996
  • Sava Šumanović, Yugoslav art gallery, Belgrade, 1996. ISBN 86-82857-01-4
  • Pėrtej (co-author), Centre for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade, 1997
  • Sreten Stojanović, Jugoslovenska galerija umetničkih dela, Beograd, 1998
  • Vida Jocić, 'Appeal for Peace', Centre for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade, 1999
  • Voices of the New Century, Chaos Gallery, Belgrade, 1999. ISBN 86-906951-0-9
  • Dossier Serbien (co-author), Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2000
  • En fin, Galerie de l'UNESCO, Paris, 2000
  • Dossier Serbien (co-author), Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien, 2001
  • Old Now, Art Gallery of the Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade, 2004. ISBN 86-84235-15-0
  • Živojin Turinski - Radovi 1958-1967, (co-author), Kulturni centar Beograda, Beograd, 2009. ISBN 978-86-7996-033-7

Awards

Co-founder

  • 1992 Belgrade, Award Lazar Trifunović (for the best theoretical work, art critic or a book in the field of art and visual creativity)
  • 1997 Belgrade, Award Mića Popović (for individuals who are critical active as artists and as engaged intellectuals)

Winner

  • 2000 Belgrade, Award Lazar Trifunović for fundamental work in art criticism and the text in the catalog, 'En fin', held at the Gallery of UNESCO, Paris, 1999.

Membership

References

  • Documentation of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
  • Who is Who in Serbia, Bibliofon, Belgrade, 1991, pp.93
  • Who is Who in Serbia, Bibliofon, Belgrade, 1995, pp.104
  • Jesa Denegri, Eighties: Issues of Serbian art, Svetovi, Novi Sad, 1997, pp.61–88, 108-113, 114-120, 121-125, 126-130, 131-133, 149-152, 153-157, 176-179, 180-190, 196-201, 210-222, 223 – 231
  • Art at the End of the Century, Clio, Belgrade, 1998, pp.10, 87-115
  • Jesa Denegri, Nineties: Issues of Serbian art, Svetovi, Novi Sad, 1999, pp.5–21, 22-81, 82-87, 244-250
  • Срђан Марковић, Светoмир Арсић, Басара, Српска Академија наука и уметности, Београд, Народна и универзитетска библиотека 'Иво Андрић', Приштина, 2003 pp.047, 066-067, 074, 096, 104, 111, 124, 127, 230, 249, 250. ISBN 86-7935-076-1
  • 10 godina Galerije Haos, Umetnički paviljon 'Cvijeta Zuzorić', Beograd, 2005, pp.48, 52. ISBN 86-906951-0-9
  • Vesna Kruljac, Lazar Trifunović - protagonist i antagonist jedne epohe, Narodni muzej, Beograd, 2009, pp.7, 11-12, 14, 149, 193. ISBN 978-86-7269-098-9
  • Radonja Leposavić, (ed.), Pažnja kritika, 50 godina Oktobarskog salona, Kulturni centar Beograda, Beograd, 2009, pp.322, 327, 331, 419. ISBN 978-86-7996-035-1
  • Snežana Stamenković, Pedeset godina memorijala ’Nadežda Petrović’, Umetnička galerija 'Nadežda Petrović', Čačak, 2010. ISBN 978-86-83783-38-0

Sources

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