by Ivana Basičevic Antic (Author)
Contemporary art today is a result of series of revolutionary changes, conceived and created by artists who strongly believed in power of art. Entrance of text into the field of painting is one of those changes. This book is the result of extensive research of textual practices in the visual arts of the 20th Century which starts from the idea that painting became too weak in the postwar scene filled with advertising and communication boom. The Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers and the Yugoslavian artist Dimitrije Basičevic Mangelos, devoted their lives to building subtle but meaningful art practices that are poetic and philosophical, based on text - verses and words. Their art is difficult to decipher but it became a call for new generations to follow their path so Broothaers and Mangelos stand today in front of us as important postwar European "artist's artists."