Marijan Molnar began the series “For the Democratisation of Art” in Zagreb in 1979

ZA DEMOKRATIZACIJU UMJETNOSTI!

A photograph from the series "For the Democratisation of Art" by the Croatian conceptual artist and performer Marijan Molnar, taken from a small-run book of 1981. Molnar began the cycle "For the Democratisation of Art" itself in 1979, when he went out onto the central square of Zagreb to collect signatures for an improvised petition.

The artist declared that by the term "democratisation" Party functionaries in fact meant the use of art for the purposes of the state, whereas he considered that he was fighting for true creative autonomy.

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