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On the Very Edge: Modernism and Modernity inthe Arts and Architecture of Interwar SerbiaJelena BogdanovićIowa State University, [email protected]
Lilien Filipovitch RobinsonGeorge Washington University
Igor MarjanovićWashington University in St. Louis
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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.
Jelena Bogdanović is an Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Iowa State University.
Lilien Filipovitch Robinson is Professor of Art History at the George Washington University.
Igor Marjanović is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis.
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)
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ON THE VERY EDGE
MODERNISM AND MODERNITY IN THE ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE OF INTERWAR SERBIA
(1918-1941)
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On the Very Edge Modernism and Modernity in the
Arts and Architecture of Interwar Serbia
(1918-1941)
Edited byJelena Bogdanović
Lilien Filipovitch RobinsonIgor Marjanović
LEUVEN UNIVERSITY PRESS
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© 2014 Leuven University Press / Presses Universitaires de Louvain / Universitaire Pers Leuven, Minderbroedersstraat 4, B-3000 Leuven/Louvain (Belgium)
All rights reserved. Except in those cases expressly determined by law, no part of this publication may be multiplied, saved in an automated data file or made public in any way whatsoever without the express prior written consent of the publishers.
ISBN 978 90 5867 993 2D / 2014 / 1869 / 45NUR: 654
Cover design: Frederik DankoCover illustration: Carl van Vechten, photograph of Milena Pavlović-Barilli, 1940, New York (By permission of Van Vechten Trust)Typesetting: Friedemann BVBA
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments IX
Introduction ON THE VERY EDGE: MODERNISMS AND MODERNITY OF INTERWAR SERBIA
Jelena Bogdanović 1
Chapter 1 FROM TRADITION TO MODERNISM: UROŠ PREDIĆ AND PAJA JOVANOVIĆ
Lilien Filipovitch Robinson 31
Chapter 2 ZENIT: PERIPATETIC DISCOURSES OF LJUBOMIR MICIĆ AND BRANKO VE POLJANSKI
Igor Marjanović 63
Chapter 3 ZENITISM AND MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE
Miloš R. Perović 85
Chapter 4 THE “OBLIK” ART GROUP, 1926-1939
Jasna Jovanov 97
Chapter 5 THE TRAVEL WRITINGS OF JELENA J. DIMITRIJEVIĆ: FEMINIST POLITICS AND PRIVILEGED INTELLECTUAL IDENTITY
Svetlana Tomić 115
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Chapter 6 COVER GIRL: ENVISIONING THE VEIL IN THE WORK OF MILENA PAVLOVIĆ-BARILLI
Ljubomir Milanović 135
Chapter 7 WOMEN AND APPLIED ARTS IN BELGRADE, 1918-1941
Bojana Popović 151
Chapter 8 EDUCATING GIRLS: WOMEN ARCHITECTS AND THE DESIGN OF THREE SCHOOLS IN BELGRADE, 1908-1938
Anna Novakov 167
Chapter 9 EXPRESSIONISM AND SERBIAN ARCHITECTURE BETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS
Aleksandar Kadijević and Tadija Stefanović 179
Chapter 10 THE GARDEN CITY CONCEPT IN THE URBAN DISCOURSE OF INTERWAR BELGRADE
Dragana Ćorović 201
Chapter 11 THE PROFESSORS’ COLONY – A SUBURBAN HOUSING PROJECT AS AN EXAMPLE OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN 1920s BELGRADE
Viktorija Kamilić 223
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Chapter 12 ARCHITECT BROTHERS PETAR AND BRANKO KRSTIĆ
Marina Djurdjević 235
Chapter 13 NIŠKA BANJA: MODERN ARCHITECTURE FOR A MODERN SPA
Nebojša Stanković 247
Chapter 14 MONEY, POLITICS, AND SPORTS: STADIUM ARCHITECTURE IN INTERWAR SERBIA
Dejan N. Zec 269
Bibliography 289
List of Contributors 315
Illustration Credits 319
Index 325
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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.
Jelena Bogdanović is an Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Iowa State University.
Lilien Filipovitch Robinson is Professor of Art History at the George Washington University.
Igor Marjanović is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis.
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)
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THE VERY ED
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MO
DERN
ISM A
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MO
DERN
ITY IN TH
E ARTS A
ND
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RCH
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RE OF IN
TERWA
R SERBIA (1918-1941)
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