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A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF AWARDS IN SERBIA

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In the second half of the 20th century, especially during the 1960s and the 1980s, a growing number of cultural awards, particularly literary ones, marked the intellectual field ie literary art in Serbia. Among these, a special place belongs to the prizes established and given by social-political communities on federal, republic or local levels, which symbolizes the desire of the state and its parts to play the role of a modern benefactor. One of those prizes, which used to be rather prestigious over a long period of time, was the October Award of the City of Belgrade for contribution to art and science, but since 2008 it has lost its place in the culture awards nomenclature. This paper, thanks to participation of the author in the work of the jury of the October Award of the City of Belgrade for literature and translation in the period 1977-1980, reconstructs conditions under which the award was assigned, the authors and their works nominated, as well as the controversies arisen in some cases and reactions of the public. In this period, members of the jury have assessed 77 works, mostly writers’ pieces, a number of works by literary historians, theoreticians and critics, and much fewer translators. In two turns, the work of the jury was undoubtedly colored by the atmosphere of tolerance and concord in decisions on the winners, when a great role in this was played by the jury chairman, Vukoje Bulatović, the manager and chief editor of the “Politika” daily magazine at the time.

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SERBIAN NATIONAL AWARDS FROM 1945 TO 1980

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State cultural policy plays a major role in the cultural life of every country, since it creates conditions for artistic work and life. This is achieved in a variety of different ways, through legal regulations and financial support for cultural institutions, projects and artists being among some. It is important to recognize that a state cultural policy never functions separately from the general policy of the state, and that every country defines its cultural policy and establishes its priorities depending on its political, social, economic, cultural and other factors. Awarding is an integral part of every cultural policy, and in this research we are also going to overview the most important Serbian national literary awards presented between 1945 and 1980. We will examine the 7th of July Award and the October Award.

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ABOUT THE AWARD CULTURE IN SERBIAN MODERN ART LIFE

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The paper is based on available biographic sources on modern Serbian artists which illustrate characteristics of the art award culture. Attention is drawn to branching and multiplying of awards based on development of the visual arts. Also, growing complexity of the awarding procedures is noted, depending on the social circumstances.

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LITERARY CANON AND LITERARY PRODUCTION: AWARDS AND THE CRITICAL JUDGEMENT

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The paper addresses the possibility of establishing connections between the procedure of awarding literary prizes on the one hand and the proper evaluation of a literary work on the other, focusing on The Man Booker Prize and The NIN Award for the Novel of the Year. Judging literary works is thought to influence both critical evaluation and achievement of media visibility, but the latter turns out to be more important in the new media environment, as the constant neglect for the elite art serves to move most respectable works to the margins of public interest.

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ON THE NATURE OF PRIZE

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In this paper prize is seen as a sign of distinction and point is made to its ephemeral quality and its connection with the cultural canon, which is reserved for the few cultural heroes and their deeds. Then, on the example of some of the most famous European and national awards, the paper has indicated their prestige and market role. Special attention is given to the media presentation of the awards and the fact that in the absence of media attention the winner and the awarded work are deprived of the presentation to the public. In the final part of the paper, the importance of award receiving is underlined as a social ceremony.

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EDITOR’S NOTE

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CENTURIES OF LANGUAGE AND LITERACY

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PERSPECTIVES OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

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CULTURAL PARTICIPATION AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

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Richness, quality, diversity and availability of different forms of cultural activities as well as mediation of cultural contents is of vital importance for children, because their age is optimal for adopting cultural values contained in various activities. Thus, the offer of cultural institutions designed for children is important for building attitudes towards culture, cultural production and cultural consumption in their adult life. Following the research of the Center for Study in Cultural Development – “Cultural offer for the children of Belgrade” from 1983 – we initiated a project called “Cultural heritage and cultural participation”. This project started in 2014 and it has two goals. The first goal is to form a database of cultural institution projects aimed towards children that would be available to researchers of culture. The other also important goal is to contribute to innovations in creating programs that cultural institutions would offer in order to foster active cultural participation. Digitalization of documentation about the Studio for creative upbringing (Školigrica) allowed us to treat this project as a folklore legacy that in its core implies understanding of folklore as artistic communication in small groups that leaves significant trace among people of different generations.

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RESEARCH: CULTURAL POLICY OF THE CITY OF BELGRADE (2011)

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The text is based on a research „Cultural policy of the City of Belgrade“ of the Centre for Study in Cultural Development carried out in 2011. During research, active stakeholders in the culture of the city of Belgrade were mapped and data were collected about their elementary resources in the period 2008 – 2010. The City of Belgrade consists of 17 municipalities which were entrusted with the culture-related competences in the Statute of the City of Belgrade adopted in 2008. The Statute has defined the cultural policy of the City of Belgrade from the perspective of its municipalities and the text deals with the question if and in which manner the provisions of this Statute are operational in practice. The situation is analyzed by examination of the cultural infrastucture, the key decision makers on the municipal level, financing of the cultural operations and planning and cooperation of the metropolitan municipalities with the City.