French Artistic Culture and Central-East European Modern Art
Editors
Ljiljana Kolešnik, Tamara Bjažić Klarin
Executive editor
Sanja Sekelj
Authors
Mária Árvai & Daniel Véri, Tamara Bjažić Klarin, Ljiljana Blagojević, Ana Bogdanović, Sonja Briski Uzelac, Helēna Demakova, Éva Forgács, Jasna Galjer, Irena Kossowska, Vesna L. Kruljac, Lovorka Magaš Bilandžić, Ana Peraica, Petar Prelog, Ljubinka Stoilova, Stela Tasheva, Asta Vrečko, Simone Wille, Korinna Zinovia Weber
Reviewers
dr. sc. Frano Dulibić
dr. sc. Dalibor Prančević
Translation and proofreading
Dunja Opatić
Graphic design
Mario Aničić
Publisher
Institute of Art History, 2017
Material description
405 pp.; ilustr.; authors biographies; bibliography, index
ISBN: 978-953-7875-35-0
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The texts published in this book are the result of three-year project Parisian art scene and Croatian Modern Art, conducted from the beginning of 2013 to the end of 2015, with the support of the Croatian Ministry of Culture. Contributions to this book are mostly based on the papers given at the three international conferences held in the framework of the project, supplemented by the essays of a few invited authors whose insight in the
topic of this publication gave a significant contribution to the complexity of the problem in the center of its interest.
Divided in two groups – on the studies that are explaining the relationship between French artistic culture and Central- East European local art scenes in the inter-war period, and studies following their cultural encounters after the World War II, in a period of a considerably different and more complex political circumstances – the book French Artistic Culture and Central-East European Modern art, is also perceived as a contribution to the ongoing debates on the center – periphery relation, approached from a rather different perspectives, and with a results that do not provide any definite answers, but rather emphasize the complexity of that issue.
(Ljiljana Kolešnik, Tamara Bjažić Klarin, from the Introduction)
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Contents
6
Introductory Remarks
10
Acknowledgements
I French Artistic Culture and Inter-war Central-East Europe
34
Sonja Briski Uzelac
Croatian Modern Art and Avant-garde Transgressions
46
Éva Forgács
Meaning of the French Moderns in Eastern Europe
60
Petar Prelog
Paul Cézanne and Croatian Inter-war Painting
72
Asta Vrečko
French Models and Slovene Art in the Inter-war Period
86
Lovorka Magaš Bilandžić
Académie André Lhote and Croatian Painting Between the Two World Wars
98
Ana Bogdanović
Reception of Paris in Belgrade Art Criticism During the 1920s
110
Irena Kossowska
The Paradigm of Style: Frech Sculpture in the 1935 Warsaw
124
Tamara Bjažić Klarin
Le Corbusier s'il vous plaît? – Oui, mais... Inter-war Architecture Between Zagreb and Paris
144
Ljiljana Blagojević
French Architectural Departures and Its Returns: Belgrade Chic, Balkan Mission, Montenegro Praxis
158
Ljubinka Stoilova
Influence of the French Artistic Culture on Bulgarian Architects and Urban Planners from the Inter-war Period
174
Jasna Galjer
International Exhibitions and Medialization of Hybrid Modernism. Examples of French Influence on the Architecture of Central and Southeast Europe in the 1920s and 1930s
II French Artistic Culture and Post-war Central-East Europe
226
Vesna L. Kruljac
Belgrade Art Informel in the Polemical Context of Serbian Culture During the 1950s and 1960s
242
Helēna Demakova
Jean Bazaine and the Latvian Second French Group
252
Simone Wille
Patterns of Trans-regional Trails and Its Relation to French Artistic Culture
264
Ana Peraica
From Anthropological to Ethnological Approach in Photojournalism. Interactions Between French and Croatian Photography in the 1950s and Early 1960s
278
Mária Árvai and Daniel Véri
The Strange Case of Existentialism and Franz Kafka in Hungarian Art
290
Stela Tasheva
Le Corbusier and Post-war Architectural Graphics in Bulgaria
302
Korinna Zinovia Weber
Georges Candilis – Architect, Urban Planner and Author with Socialist Ideas in a Capitalist World
364
Contributors
372
List of References
398
Index