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The Role of Abstraction for Croatian Architectural Modernism

The presentation focuses on the pronounced tendency towards pure “questions of form” and rigorous geometrical research that marked the art and architectural world in post WW2 Croatia, as part of the Yugoslav federation. It will examine the choice of abstraction as an aesthetic tool meant to adequately serve the new social ideas and circumstances. The concept of abstraction was most vigorously introduced by the group of artists called EXAT 51. The discussion will examine the significance and implications of the concept of abstraction for the postwar Croatian architecture – how it enabled architecture to engage in forming the new socialist society by giving it its proper spatial setting, but at the same time to remain enthusiastically on the steady course of modernism and to advance freely in the autonomous research of their spatial discipline. The discussion will thereby observe the continuity of architectural modernism from the previous, interwar period, as well as the relationships and proximities of architecture and art.

Abstraction; Croatian architectural modernism; socialist society; total plastic reality

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