“This is the first English translation of almost the entire opus of zenithism (1921–1927), the original Yugoslav contribution to high modernist movements.

The zenithist concept of the ‘barbarogenius’ and barbarism challenged the notions of cultural value that, as the collection’s editors state, 'has been created, reproduced, and re-capitalized as a cultural means for colonial oppression and economic domination.'

Through carefully done translations and exhaustive introductions, the anthology spans a variety of texts—from poetry to the short novel, to flyers, to critical reviews, constructing a narrative about zenithism as an authentically Balkan utopian cultural project, as well as a socially oriented art. It contextualizes zenithism in a novel way that has not been done in previous studies of this movement, by emphasizing not only the zenithists’ practices of textual hybridity and their relations to film and radio, but also their so-called cultural banditry and conceptual writing, as well as by creating a connection with Yugoslav neo-avant-garde literary and artistic practices from the second half of the twentieth century. This is a definitive collection that should become an essential text for anybody interested in modernism.”

– Tatjana Aleksić, Associate Professor of South Slavic and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor