A01=Gretchen Bakke
adaptation
appearance
art
artificiality
Author_Gretchen Bakke
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communism
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forgery
identity
laibach
melania trump
mondrian
nonfiction
philosophy
portraits of a three headed mountain
postsocialism
replication
self
self expression
sincerity
slovenia
socialism
subjectivity
surfaces
walter benjamin
yugoslav
yugoslav republic
zizek
Product details
- ISBN 9780520320048
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 May 2020
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Likeness is a close ethnographic study of subjectivity in the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. In this highly imaginative work, the author argues that much of what matters in Slovenia plays out on surfaces—of people and things, systems and locations—rendering the complexity of expression external and legible, but rarely unique or original. Here likenesses are everywhere in bloom and powerfully deployed. Moving blithely from Slovenia’s most famous thinkers to its most confounding artists, from grammatical categories of number to the particularities of history, The Likeness explores alternative modes of self-expression as postsocialist Slovenia gains visibility on the world stage.
Gretchen Bakke is a cultural anthropologist at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin. She is the author of The Grid: The Fraying Wires between Americans and Our Energy Future and a coeditor of Between Matter and Method: Encounters in Anthropology and Art and Anthropology of the Arts: A Reader.
