Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 20
Vidovdanski hram Ivana Meštrovića, stvaranje Jugoslavije i paradoksi nacionalizma
(Beograd: Muzej Jugoslavije, 2018)
Vidovdanski hram (1906-1913) skulptora Ivana Meštrovića, nekadašnje ubojito oružje Kraljevine Srbije u borbama za oslobođenje i ujedinjenje Južnih Slovena i glavni simbolički instrument u procesu stvaranja Jugoslavije, ...
Straddling the National Divide: Yugoslavism, Furore Orientalis and Ivan Meštrović's Vidovdan Temple (1906-1913)
(Zagreb : Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, 2016)
Modern interpretations of the Vidovdan Temple (1906-1913), the fundamental artwork associated with the Yugoslav project, have seen it as a symbol of multicultural, synthetic Yugoslavism. Yet these readings seem to be, to ...
National Unity through Regional Diversity: Architecture as Political Reform in Yugoslavia, 1929-1941
(Brussels: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten & Contactforum, 2012)
When in 1929 King Alexander I Karadjordjević dissolved the parliament and abolished the constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, it was only the final act in a long lasting political drama which had started ...
Translatio Imperii Revisited in the Balkans: Interpretation of Serbian Past and Imperial Imagination, 1878-1941
(Brussels: Academia BelgicaRome: Institut Historique Belge de Rome/Belgisch Historisch Instituut te Rome, 2018)
Over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Serbian scholarship developed not only a highly ambiguous and complex model of perception of the Eastern Roman Empire, but it also evinced a sense of ...
Competing Byzantinisms: The Architectural Imaginations of the Balkan Nations at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900
(Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015)
The 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, where most of the Christian nation states of the Balkans erected their own national pavilions to resemble what each nation understood as a
Byzantine-related national style, was ...
Modern States, Ancient Nations: Balkan National Pavilions at the Paris World Exhibitions in the Twentieth Century
(Athens : The Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2011)
The 1900 Paris World Exhibition in particular seems highly elucidating. Simultaneously referring to the nation's 'glorious past' and contemporary modernity, the ephemeral pavilions of Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania ...
Transformations of the Slavija Square in Belgrade: History, Memory and Construction od Identity = Preobražaj trga Slavija u Beogradu: istorija, sećanje i konstrukcija identiteta
(Beograd : Kulturklammer - Centar za kulturne interakcije, 2012)
Despite the fact that it represents an urban focal point of the city, Slavija Square has remained a paradigm of ideological and physical marginality in Belgrade's recent history. It's complex ideological heritage, the ...
Negotiating National Prospects by Capturing the Medieval Past: Byzantium in Serbian Architectural History at the Turn of the 20th Century
(Mainz : Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2018)
The truism that the birth of the discipline of architectural history in Serbia was entwined with national emancipation and the construction of an authentic national identity is questioned by the position of the Byzantine ...
Images of Imperial Legacy: Modern Discourses on the Social and Cultural Impact of Ottoman and Habsburg Rule in Southeastern Europe. Studien zur Geschichte, Kultur und Gesellschaft Südosteuropas
(London: Modern Humanities Research AssociationSchool of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, 2012)
Interpreting legacy as a system of signs and images, this volume questions the notions of ‘backwardness’ or ‘progress’, which undoubtedly have marked the common perception of the Ottoman and Habsburg heritage in Southeast ...
Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Europe
(London: Modern Humanities Research AssociationSchool of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, 2016)
It is often presumed that ecclesiastical autocephaly and national independence
worked together in South-Eastern Europe. But the paths of ecclesiastical and
political independence for Greeks and Serbs, Romanians and ...