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.