Summary
Zenit and the avant-garde of the 20s
Irina Subotić and Vidosava Golubović prepared the exhibition ``Zenit and the avant-garde of the 20s'', the old intolerance towards Micić was renewed. ``Even dead, Micić did not give peace to his enemies,'' says Irina Subotić. ``The General Secretary for Culture of the Union of Communists of Serbia, Radivoj Cvetićanin, with his article in 'Borba', launched an almost irrational avalanche of attacks on Micić and the National Museum, which organized an exhibition of his legacy. At the time, Micić was challenged by everyone: politically it was opportune because it was known that he "dared to write against Tito". The raid was joined by the then mayor of Belgrade, Bogdan Bogdanović, who did not even visit the exhibition. About what was exhibited there and represented a new page of our avant-garde - only Velimir Abramović Abramčik dared to write
Zenit is a magazine that was published from 1921 to 1926 in Zagreb and Belgrade as the "International Review of Art and Culture". Its initiator and editor was Ljubomir Micić. A total of 43 issues were published. At the beginning, Miloš Crnjanski, Dušan Matić, Stanislav Vinaver and others collaborated with this magazine. Contributions were also published by international collaborators Aleksandar Blok, Jaroslav Sajfert, Wassily Kandinsky, Anri Barbis... Zenit has been published in Belgrade since 1924, and in 1926 it was banned because of the text "Zenitism through the prism of Marxism."
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