Performing Modernism : A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chiriac, Alexandra.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2022.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

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

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783110765687

3110765683

OCLC:

1338019943