Jerko "Ješa" Denegri ( sr-cyr, Јерко "Јеша" Денегри, ) is a

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Biography

He was born on 5 September 1936 in Split,

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, now

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. Graduated on University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy at the Department of

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where he defended his PhD thesis. He was a curator at the

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from 1965 to 1991 and a professor on Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy from 1991 to 2007 at the Department of Art History. He wrote more than 3000 theoretical texts, essays, critics about modern, contemporary and actual art in daily, weekly and monthly periodicals as such as in specialized journals. Author of many Yugoslav and Serbian visual art exhibitions and a monograph and catalog preface of their most important protagonists. He was a commissioner on the Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists in

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Centre Pompidou, and

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., pg. 200 He initiated and was the editor and chief editor of several professional journals: The Art (Belgrade), Architecture-Urbanism (Belgrade), Moment (

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- Belgrade), Projeka(r)t (

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) etc. He is the member of International Association of Art Critics (AICA).

References

External links

Biography at Monoskop.org

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