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 remapping and adjusting the prevailing historical canon.
Contributors: Jelena Bogdanovi (Iowa State University), Lilien Filipovitch Robinson (George Washington University), Igor Marjanovi (Washington University in St. Louis), Milo R. Perovi (University of Belgrade), Jasna Jovanov (The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection and University EDUCONS, Novi Sad), Svetlana Tomi (Alfa University, Belgrade), Ljubomir Milanovi (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts), Bojana Popovi (Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade), Anna Novakov (Saint Mary's College of California), Aleksandar Kadijevi (University of Belgrade), Tadija Stefanovi (University of Belgrade), Dragana orovi (University of Belgrade), Viktorija Kamili (independent scholar), Marina Djurdjevi (Museum of Science and Technology, Belgrade), Neboj a Stankovi (Princeton University), Dejan Zec (Institute for Recent History of Serbia)"