Ješa Denegri

Ješa Denegri (born 1936 in Split, now Croatia) is the most influential historian and theorist of Yugoslav modernist art of the 1950s and 1960s, and the leading authority and critical contributor to the engaging "new artistic practice" in Yugoslavia in the 1970s. Most scholars dealing with Yugoslav art have been prompted by his writings and notions such as the "New Yugoslav Artistic Practice," and most leading artists from the period have been firstly interpreted by Denegri. Yet, despite the recent international interest in Yugoslav modernist and conceptual art, his critical writings and curatorial work have still remained in relative obscurity.