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Art & Theory
jelena bogdanovic ´ 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 marjanovic is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis.
n € 59,00 / £52.00
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n isbn 978 90 5867 993 2 n June 2014 n Paperback, 17 x 23 cm n ca. 370 pp. n Illustrated n English
On The Very Edge
Modernism and Modernity in the Arts and Architecture of Interwar Serbia (1918–1941)
´ Jelena Bogdanovic, Lilien Filipovitch Robinson, and Igor Marjanovic (eds) ´
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.
Contributors Jelena Bogdanovic (Iowa State University), Lilien Filipovitch Robinson (George Washington ´ ´ University), Igor Marjanovic (Washington University in St. Louis), Miloš R. Perovic (Uni´ versity of Belgrade), Jasna Jovanov (The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection and University educons, Novi Sad), Svetlana Tomic (Alfa University, Belgrade), Ljubomir Milanovic ´ ´ (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts), Bojana Popovic (Museum of Applied Art in Bel´ grade), Anna Novakov (Saint Mary’s College of California), Aleksandar Kadijevic (Univer´ sity of Belgrade), Tadija Stefanovic (University of Belgrade), Dragana Corovic (University of ´ Belgrade), Viktorija Kamilic (independent scholar), Marina Djurdjevic (Museum of Science and Technology, Belgrade), Nebojša Stankovic (Princeton University), Dejan Zec (Institute for Recent History of Serbia)
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n Regionalism and Modernity: Architecture in Western Europe 1914–1940 Leen Meganck, Linda Van Santvoort, Jan De Maeyer (eds) € 59,50 / £49.50, isbn 978 90 5867 918 5, kadoc-Artes 14 n Making a New World: Architecture and Communities in Interwar Europe Rajesh Heynickx, Tom Avermaete (eds) € 49,50 / £43.00, isbn 978 90 5867 909 3, hardback, kadoc-Artes 13
Jan Dibbets, The Photographic Work
Erik Verhagen
The first monograph covering Dibbets’s iconic photographic oeuvre Dutchman Jan Dibbets (b. 1941) is one of the principal artists to have introduced photography into the plastic arts, and this as early as the 1960s. At a time when photography has massively invaded contemporary art institutions – not without generating confusion and excess – it is not easy to evaluate the full radicality of Dibbets’s approach. This radicalism has nothing to do with modernist overkill. Dibbets did not merely go further than others; rather, he simply went elsewhere. Beginning in 1967, he embarked on a long-range project which, as we advance into the 21st century, he seems not to have abandoned: the ‘pictorializing’ of photography. Jan Dibbets is one of the few artists of his generation and reputation not to have seen his oeuvre accorded full monographic coverage. This exhaustive study seeks to fill this gap by covering almost fifty years of his photographic oeuvre.
Previously published in the Lieven Gevaert Series
n Minor Aesthetics: The Photographic Work of Marcel Mariën Mieke Bleyen €39,50 / £35.00, isbn 978 90 5867 968 0, paperback, Lieven Gevaert Series 17 n Aïm Deüelle Lüski and Horizontal Photography Ariella Azoulay €34,50 / £30.00, isbn 978 90 5867 949 9, paperback, Lieven Gevaert Series 16 erik verhagen is Assistant Professor in Contemporary Art at the University of Valenciennes, in France.
n € 39,50 / £35.00
n isbn 978 90 5867 991 8 n April 2014 n Paperback, 17 x 23 cm n 208 pp. n Illustrated n English n Lieven Gevaert Series 18
thomas crombez is affiliated Researcher at the University of Antwerp and teaches Philosophy of Art and Theatre History at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and Philosophy at Sint Lucas Antwerpen. luk van den dries is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Antwerp.
n € 49,50 / £44.00
n isbn 978 90 5867 992 5 n March 2014 n Hardback, 22,5 x 28 cm n 160 pp. n English n Kadoc-Artes 15
Mass Theatre in Inter-War Europe
Thomas Crombez and Luk Van den Dries (eds)
Ideological heterogeneity in mass plays in Flanders and the Netherlands In many European countries mass theatre was a widespread expression of ‘community art’ which became increasingly popular shortly before the First World War. From Max Reinhardt’s lavish open-air spectacles to socialist workers’ Laienspiel (lay theatre), theatre visionaries focused on ever larger groups for entertainment as well as political agitation. Despite wide research on the Soviet and German cases, examples from the Low Countries have hardly been examined. However, mass plays in Flanders and the Netherlands had a distinctive character, displaying an ideological heterogeneity not seen elsewhere. Mass Theatre in Inter-War Europe studies this peculiar phenomenon of the Low Countries in its European context and sheds light on the broader framework of mass movements in the inter-war period.
Contributors Staf Vos (Het Firmament), Karel Vanhaesebrouck (Université Libre de Bruxelles/Rits), Evelien Jonckheere (Ghent University), Ad van der Logt (Leiden University), Frank Peeters (University of Antwerp)
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n Dans in België 1890–1940 Staf Vos € 39,50, isbn 978 90 5867 921 5, paperback – ook verkrijgbaar als e-book (eisbn 978 94 6166 072 5)
