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On the Very Edge: Modernism and Modernity inthe Arts and Architecture of Interwar SerbiaJelena BogdanovićIowa State University, jelenab@iastate.edu

Lilien Filipovitch RobinsonGeorge Washington University

Igor MarjanovićWashington University in St. Louis

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Recommended CitationBogdanović, Jelena; Robinson, Lilien Filipovitch; and Marjanović, Igor, "On the Very Edge: Modernism and Modernity in the Artsand Architecture of Interwar Serbia" (2014). Architecture Books. 1.http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/arch_books/1

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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