This paper therefore looks at the shift that took place after 1968 in Croatian art that brought artists out of the official gallery system, which had offered freedom at the price of social irrelevance, to engage with the wider social sphere. It aims to bring out the special qualities of the Croatian social sphere at this time, including the political and social context of a decentralised but authoritarian communist system, with its own brand of social institutions and contexts. A further issue is the existence of inner connections between the art in the social sphere of the 1970s and the socially-engaged art that emerged in the 1990s.

Croatian Spring: Art in the Social Sphere (pdf)