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Catalogue >Fine Art >  Monographs >  Mica Popovic Mica Popovic Heinz Klunker Mica Popovic (born 1923) is one of the most distinguished, controversial and popular figures in contemporary Serbian art. In his work and in his life he has succeeded in reconciling rebellion and protest with a humanist tolerance and deep respect for the values of the past. ISBN 1 871 489 02 4 | Retail price £14.95  [View sample pages in PDF format] Online price: £10.50 / €15.75 Through his modest and witty autobiography, an essay by an eminent German art critic, and above all, through his paintings and drawings, superbly reproduced, this book presents a study of a truly remarkable artist-intellectual deeply involved in post-Second World War international art trends and in the political and cultural life of of Serbia and ex-Yugoslavia. Popovic's bitterly humourous realistic works of the Sixties and Seventies offer some of the most incisive social criticism of the shortcomings of the Yugoslav social system, its failure to live up to its promises. His criticism, though, springs from his passionate patriotism, his desire to be involved, as an artist, in the destiny of his people: "I have never submitted unreservedly to anything but the truth... It is the artists's duty to disturb the public." His success in this has won his work high acclaim in the United States and Europe as well as in his own country. But his reputation rests on much more than his sometimes controversial subject matter. Mastery of line, ingenious use of collage, powerful evocation of mood and dramatic tonal contrasts are the elements that make Mica Popovic's work instantly recognisable and have ensured him a place among the leading post-Second World War European painters.