Performing Modernism : : A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest.

This volume constitutes the first in-depth study of modernism in design and performance in interwar Romania, covering the period 1924 to 1934. It focuses on Jewish avant-garde artists and cultural producers, as well as design educators, arts patrons, and women entrepreneurs. Based on extensive resea...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2022.
©2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (232 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • PREFACE: A DE-CONSTRUCTIVIST NARRATIVE OF THE BUCHAREST AVANT-GARDE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • MYTH, MAKING AND MODERNITY: VESPREMIE, MAXY AND THE ACADEMY OF DECORATIVE ARTS
  • THE WORKSHOPS OF THE ACADEMY OF DECORATIVE ARTS
  • THE COMMERCIAL SECTION OF THE ACADEMY OF DECORATIVE ARTS
  • INTERMISSION: PERFORMING MODERNISM
  • THE VILNA TROUPE IN ROMANIA: RECONSTRUCTING AVANT-GARDE PERFORMANCE
  • BETWEEN THE MAGICAL AND THE MECHANICAL: THE THEATRE COMPANIES OF DIDA SOLOMON AND IACOB STERNBERG
  • CONCLUDING REMARKS
  • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
  • APPENDICES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • CREDITS