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Art and Dissent

Questioning the Grid

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In the winter of 2001, just several months after the overthrow of the Milosevic regime in Serbia, the air was filled with anticipation and hope for a better future. Some were hoping for a more egalitarian, peaceful and democratic society; others were dreaming about traveling, employment and imported goods. That winter however, one could see the battlefront of these contested dreams and realities placed, strangely enough, on billboards.

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Šešić, M.D., Tomka, G. (2016). Art and Dissent. In: Gonçalves, S., Majhanovich, S. (eds) Art and Intercultural Dialogue. Comparative and International Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-423-7_4

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