Full Description
Revealing a vibrant and intertwined artistic scene in the Balkans
On the Very Edge brings together fourteen empirical and comparative essays about the production, perception, and reception of modernity and modernism in the visual arts, architecture, and literature of interwar Serbia (1918-1941). The contributions highlight some idiosyncratic features of modernist processes in this complex period in Serbian arts and society, which emerged 'on the very edge' between territorial and cultural, new and old, modern and traditional identities.
With an open methodological framework this book reveals a vibrant and intertwined artistic scene, which, albeit prematurely, announced interests in pluralism and globalism. On the Very Edge addresses issues of artistic identities and cultural geographies and aims to enrich contextualized studies of modernism and its variants in the Balkans and Europe, while simultaneously re-mapping and adjusting the prevailing historical canon.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
Contributors
Jelena Bogdanović (Iowa State University), Lilien Filipovitch Robinson (George Washington University), Igor Marjanović (Washington University in St. Louis), Miloš R. Perović (University of Belgrade), Jasna Jovanov (The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection and University EDUCONS, Novi Sad), Svetlana Tomić (Alfa University, Belgrade), Ljubomir Milanović (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts), Bojana Popović (Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade), Anna Novakov (Saint Mary's College of California), Aleksandar Kadijević (University of Belgrade), Tadija Stefanović (University of Belgrade), Dragana Ćorović (University of Belgrade), Viktorija Kamilić (independent scholar), Marina Djurdjević (Museum of Science and Technology, Belgrade), Nebojša Stanković (Princeton University), Dejan Zec (Institute for Recent History of Serbia)
Contents
Acknowledgments IX Introduction ON THE VERY EDGE: MODERNISMS AND MODERNITY OF INTERWAR SERBIA Jelena Bogdanović
Chapter 1 FROM TRADITION TO MODERNISM: UROŠ PREDIĆ AND PAJA JOVANOVIĆ Lilien Filipovitch Robinson
Chapter 2 ZENIT: PERIPATETIC DISCOURSES OF LJUBOMIR MICIĆ AND BRANKO VE POLJANSKI Igor Marjanović
Chapter 3 ZENITISM AND MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE Miloš R. Perović
Chapter 4 THE "OBLIK" ART GROUP, 1926-1939 Jasna Jovanov
Chapter 5 THE TRAVEL WRITINGS OF JELENA J. DIMITRIJEVIĆ: FEMINIST POLITICS AND PRIVILEGED INTELLECTUAL IDENTITY Svetlana Tomić Chapter 6 COVER GIRL: ENVISIONING THE VEIL IN THE WORK OF MILENA PAVLOVIĆ-BARILLI Ljubomir Milanović
Chapter 7 WOMEN AND APPLIED ARTS IN BELGRADE, 1918-1941 Bojana Popović
Chapter 8 EDUCATING GIRLS: WOMEN ARCHITECTS AND THE DESIGN OF THREE SCHOOLS IN BELGRADE, 1908-1938 Anna Novakov
Chapter 9 EXPRESSIONISM AND SERBIAN ARCHITECTURE BETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS Aleksandar Kadijević and Tadija Stefanović
Chapter 10 THE GARDEN CITY CONCEPT IN THE URBAN DISCOURSE OF INTERWAR BELGRADE Dragana Ćorović
Chapter 11 THE PROFESSORS' COLONY - A SUBURBAN HOUSING PROJECT AS AN EXAMPLE OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN 1920s BELGRADE Viktorija Kamilić Chapter 12 ARCHITECT BROTHERS PETAR AND BRANKO KRSTIĆ Marina Djurdjević
Chapter 13 NIŠKA BANJA: MODERN ARCHITECTURE FOR A MODERN SPA Nebojša Stanković
Chapter 14 MONEY, POLITICS, AND SPORTS: STADIUM ARCHITECTURE IN INTERWAR SERBIA Dejan N. Zec
Bibliography List of Contributors Illustration Credits Index
