Putar Radoslav Editor (2 results)
Published by Zagreb: Galerije grada Zagreba. 1972
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Periodical
Seller: Centerbridge Books, Old Saybrook, CT, U.S.A.Centerbridge Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
US$ 40.00
US$ 5.00 shippingShips within U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stiff photographic wrappers. Folio. 64pp. The first issue of this important Croatian magazine dedicated to experimental photography, video and the media. Contents include: a cover by Petar Dabac; Note on space and time in the photography of A. Karolyi; photographs b Eero Suvilampi,…Antonio Carlos, Peeter Tooming and others; Photography in Czechoslovakia 1968-1970; more photographs by Nino Vranic, Aleksander Karolyi, Ivan Dvorsak and others; My last talk with Toso Dabac; and much more. A very good copy with some light wear to the cover wraps. Scarce.
More images- Softcover
Seller: Penka Rare Books and Archives, ILAB, Berlin, GermanyPenka Rare Books and Archives, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used
US$ 2,989.58
US$ 40.64 shippingShips from Germany to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Zagreb: Galerije grada Zagreba, 1972-1978. Quartos (30 × 23 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers with ca. 48-65 pp. per issue. Illustrations throughout, mostly from photographs. First issue (1972) with introductory pages in Serbo-Croatian, English, and Russian, in French starting 1973. Starting 1975, German replaced Russian.… No. 2 leaves detaching from block. Light soil to wrappers, else very good. Complete run of this internationally-oriented Yugoslav fine art photography magazine, dedicated to "raising the general literacy of expression through images" and edited by the Croatian art theorist and founding member of the avant-garde art group Gorgona, Radoslav Putar (1921-1994). "We will take special care that the printed word does not burden the expressiveness of the image, i.e. with its quantity," write the editors in the opening issue. Photographic images dominate the pages of the journal, focusing especially on recent trends in East European art and photography, showcasing the works of artists such as Peeter Tooming (Estonia), Petr ?tembera, and Ji?í Valoch (Czech Republic), Mitja Koman (Yugoslavia), among others. Some issues have a special focus, such as no.5, which is dedicated to xerox art, no. 7 is dedicated to British photography, and no. 10 is dedicated to Yugoslav video art, featuring stills from video works of Marina Abramovi?, Sanja Ivekovi?, and Julije Knifer. Issues also include works of Diane Arbus, Christian Boltanski, Ken Josephson, Lee Friedlander, Duane Michals, Jeanloup Sieff, reviews of exhibitions of artists such as Gerhard Richter, as well as discussions of photography by Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy, and Edward Ruscha. Radoslav Putar, the head editor of the journal, was a seminal figure in Yugoslav-Croatian contemporary art, with an annual prize in his name awarded to Croatian contemporary artists by the Institute of Contemporary art in Zagreb since 2002. In 1959 Putar became a founding member of the avant-garde art group Gorgona, active in Zagreb until 1966. The group advocated "anti-art", focusing on new modes of artistic communication such as group walks, assignments, and concept discussions. The group also published an eponymous anti-magazine, with each issue doubling as a work of art or an exhibition. Most recently Gorgona materials were featured in the exhibition "Hello World. Revising a Collection" (Nationalgalerie Berlin, 2018), which sought to reassess the museum's collection to include non-Western perspectives on artistic practice. Putar would continue working with other Gorgona members on Spot after the group's dissolution, with another Gorgona founding member, Dimitrije Ba?i?evi?, being part of the editorial board of Spot. Other contributors to the issues of the journal included major curators and theorists of contemporary art such as De?a Denegri, Ida Biard, Nena Baljkovic, and Beke László. As of October 2025, KVK, OCLC show one complete run worldwide, in North America, with scattered issues at five other institutions.
