Introducing a unique cultural community, this book follows the lives of Sarajevan visual artists as they respond to the rising instability and political fragmentation during the last days of Yugoslavia’s existence, and its eventual dissolution that resulted in the siege of their city. Exploring how artists understood and spoke about their experiences of war, it places a focus on a series of recognizable discourses that have since become synonymous with the memory of the siege of Sarajevo. Hinging its central arguments on a micro-historical reading of a highly particular community that existed simultaneously on the practical periphery of Yugoslav cultural developments and within the center of the state’s fragmentation, this text reassesses the ways ordinary people experienced the onset of war in their community and how they survived the same.