Art out of rubble. (Sarajevo after the war)

From: American Scholar | Date: March 22, 1997| Author: Lasky, Julie | Copyright information

Sarajevo is in the process of recovery six months after the war in Bosnia. It is a painful process as the remnants of war still haunt the nation. Artists have been struggling to express themselves to divert people's minds from the unhappiness and uncertainties besetting them.

The Holiday Inn in Sarajevo is an irregular cube of a building. Portions of its exterior were sliced away by design long before the hotel began to be shelled. Even in the best of times, it must have resembled ...

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