On the Very Edge : Modernism and Modernity in the Arts and Architecture of Interwar Serbia (1918-1941)

Revealing a vibrant and intertwined artistic scene in the Balkans.'On the Very Edge' brings together fourteen empirical and comparativeessays about the production, perception, and reception of modernity andmodernism in the visual arts, architecture, and literature of interwar Serbia(1918-1941). The contributions highlight some idiosyncratic features ofmodernist processes in this complex period in Serbian arts and society,which emerged 'on the very edge' between territorial and cultural, newand old, modern and traditional identities.With an open methodological framework this book reveals a vibrant andintertwined artistic scene, which, albeit prematurely, announced interestsin pluralism and globalism. 'On the Very Edge' addresses issues of artisticidentities and cultural geographies and aims to enrich contextualized studiesof modernism and its variants in the Balkans and Europe, while simultaneouslyre-mapping and adjusting the prevailing historical canon.