These are most of the documents related to the 1979 unsuccessful call for the “International Strike of Artists” initiated by Goran Đorđević. As an idea perhaps it might had sense back then, but in the world that is emerging now, it appears to be obsolete and these documents remain just as dusty traces of the distant past.Continue reading “International Strike of Artists”
Once upon a time, there lived an adventurous young man. Being an explorer and ethnographer at heart, he longed to travel and make great discoveries. Then it happened one day that he heard a tale about some curious developments among the natives of the Old World. A new style in the making and decorating of art objects, it was said, had been spreading among the craftsmen of various tribes. The movement was already dying out, however, and soon it would slip into oblivion. Intrigued, the explorer immediately organized a series of expeditions across the ocean. He visited all the important places, collected paintings and other exotic objects from the natives and recorded the stories they told. Impressed with what he saw and heard, he brought back many artifacts and decided to establish an ethnographic museum, naming it the Museum of Modern Art.
What was Modern Art? 