Jadranka
Damjanov, a full time professor in Methodology of Art History
at the Faculty of Arts, University of Zagreb has been teaching
at that faculty since 1965. She also taught art at secondary
school from 1958. till 1985. She did her doctor’s degree
in 1963.Besides numerous articles she has published several
secondary school handbooks about art appreciation and history
of art ( one of the handbooks has so far had twenty-four editions).
Together with Dubravka Janda and Velibor Jerbic she did research
for UNESCO which was published under the title Cultural Contents
in Education of Children and Youth in Paris 1976. Her hadbook
for university students Visual Language and Visual Art was
published in 1991. The research that followed produced the
book Eye movements and Pictures, Six Paintings of Croatian
Modern Art in the Achievements of Experimental Aesthetics,
published in 1996. together with a parallel translation in
English. Since 1992. she has been leading together with students
a workshop-based free school for comprehensive studies of
art at Centre of culture and Education Zagreb. For her work
she was awarded the State Prize of the Republic of Croatia
in 1998. In 1999. published her Art adventure, notebook, together
with its translation into English. Since 1998. she has been
leading the project Zrinski and Europe ( the first part of
texts published in 2000.) Translates and writes for radio.
She also works on Hungarian-Croatian cultural connections
(translating, editing, leading conferences). Since 2000. she
has been leading the project MSP on internet.