Modernism as Byzantine and Romanesque Pastiche: The Art of National Emancipation in Early 20th Century Yugoslavia

• In Event: "Just What Is It That Makes the Medieval So Different, So Appealing?": Modernism and National Emancipation in a Transnational Perspective

Abstract

Byzantinist and Romanesque art forms feature prominently in early 20th-century art in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia), from architecture to sculpture and the avant-garde movement Zenitism. The paper traces the complex national narrative behind it but asks also about the "universal" aspirations typical for modernist art.

Author

• Seraina Renz, Masaryk U (Czech Republic)