Open AccessThe Impossible Avant-garde of Vladan Radovanović
Author(s) -
Ivana Medić
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
muzikološki zbornik/muzikološki zbornik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.108
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2350-4242
pISSN - 0580-373X
DOI - 10.4312/mz.55.1.157-176
Subject(s) - avant garde , serbian , destiny (iss module) , art , art history , literature , philosophy , linguistics , physics , astronomy
The term nesuđena avangarda (“undestined avant-garde”) was coined by Milorad Belančić to describe Vladan Radovanović’s unique artistic destiny. Although Radovanović was the only truly avant-garde Serbian composer in the post-World War II Yugoslavia, his output was overlooked and sidelined. In this article I discuss the circumstances that rendered Radovanović’s avant-garde unrecognised, irrelevant and invisible for many decades.