Summary
The literature of the painter Dimitrije Popović is a natural extension of his artistic expression, a medium in which he moves confidently and skillfully.
In his essays on art, Popović introduces the reader to the world of great masters and key works that shaped epochs. It explores their reasons and the socio-historical circumstances in which they acted, as well as the moral dilemmas that the work opens up once it finds itself in the public arena. He will write, for example, about the never-exhaustive topic of Marilyn Monroe's popularity, but also about the fact that the first artistic forgery was signed by none other than Michelangelo.
He will touch on his inexhaustible theme of nudity in painting, but its kind of contradiction - death. For Popović, art is a transcendent and metaphysical force - one that nourishes individuals, shapes societies, which is both eros and thanatos.
In the book Art between idea and ideology, the author investigates engaging art and its possible abuses, art in the time of fast information circulation and social networks, questions the representation of the body in visual culture and exposes the boundaries between the sacred and the profane.
Like an archaeologist looking into a treasure trove of history, Popović finds the most interesting artifacts, cleans them of the accumulated patina of time and presents them to readers in a new light.
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