Performing Modernism: A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest

Alexandra Chiriac

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Performing Modernism

A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest

Alexandra Chiriac

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110765687

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About this book

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 research in Romania, Latvia, Germany, and the United States, it highlights the transnational impact of Jewish cultural production and its contribution to avant-garde movements across Europe and further afield. It shows how Bucharest was connected to places such as Berlin, Paris, Riga and Chicago through modern design and experimental Yiddish theatre, and argues that the Schule Reimann was more influential in Romania than the Bauhaus. Drawing on scholarship from the fields of performance studies, design history, and art history, this volume makes a valuable new contribution to histories of modernism and avant-garde.

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Alexandra Chiriac, Leonard A. Lauder Fellow in Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Open Access Download PDF	7
PREFACE: A DE-CONSTRUCTIVIST NARRATIVE OF THE BUCHAREST AVANT-GARDE Open Access Download PDF	10
INTRODUCTION Open Access Download PDF	13
MYTH, MAKING AND MODERNITY: VESPREMIE, MAXY AND THE ACADEMY OF DECORATIVE ARTS Open Access Download PDF	29
THE WORKSHOPS OF THE ACADEMY OF DECORATIVE ARTS Open Access Download PDF	54
THE COMMERCIAL SECTION OF THE ACADEMY OF DECORATIVE ARTS Open Access Download PDF	90
INTERMISSION: PERFORMING MODERNISM Open Access Download PDF	117
THE VILNA TROUPE IN ROMANIA: RECONSTRUCTING AVANT-GARDE PERFORMANCE Open Access Download PDF	126
BETWEEN THE MAGICAL AND THE MECHANICAL: THE THEATRE COMPANIES OF DIDA SOLOMON AND IACOB STERNBERG Open Access Download PDF	174
CONCLUDING REMARKS Open Access Download PDF	203
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Open Access Download PDF	207
APPENDICES Open Access Download PDF	211
BIBLIOGRAPHY Open Access Download PDF	221
CREDITS Open Access Download PDF	232

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics in Art History, Theater Studies, Jewish Studies and East-Central European area studies
Pages
- Main content: 232
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 69
- Coloured Illustrations: 23
Keywords: modern art; Romania; performance art; theater

eBook

Published: July 18, 2022
ISBN: 9783110765687

Paperback

Published: July 18, 2022
ISBN: 9783110765588