Vesna pavlovic biography books
Vesna Pavlović (Serbia/US) obtained her MFA degree in Visual Arts from Columbia University in She is an Associate Professor of Art at Vanderbilt..
Vesna Pavlović: Stagecraft features four extensive bodies of the photographer's work, spanning from the early s to today.
Vesna Pavlović Stagecraft
Available through Vanderbilt University Press , 2021
“The visual sequence of Stagecraft unfolds as a cluster of photographic reflections, opening to its readers and viewers the road of nostalgia towards the “better past”, or provoking differentiated critical thoughts on history and its “staging in pictures”.
The uncanny spaces of Hotels offer a deadpan gaze to the “ceremonial interiors” of the Palace of Federation of Yugoslavia and Chase Manhattan bank in New York, telling the stories of and about the XX century trough a particular aesthetics inspired by Cold War ideologies.
These images are witness to the crisis of modernity and socialism in our contemporary encounter with the endless process of transition to global capitalism.”