Pop Art and the Socialist ‘Thing’: Dušan Otašević in the 1960s

Abstract

The early work of Dušan Otašević constitutes a rare example of the influence of Anglo-American pop on an eastern European artist working under the conditions of 1960s socialism. In this paper Branislav Dimitrijević argues that Otašević did not uncritically appropriate stylistic models imported from the West, but explored the specific and complex relationship between production and consumption under socialism.