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Spatial and Temporal Trajectories of Southeast European Avant-garde

On February 1st 1921, three writers from three different cities – Ljubomir Micić (Zagreb), Boško Tokin (Belgrade) and Ivan Goll (Paris) – published in Zagreb the first issue of the avant-garde magazine Zenit. Conceived as the international magazine for art and culture, and operating as a hub of Regional radical art practices, magazine Zenit was also the most important contact point between Southeast European avant-garde and a number of avant-garde groups and movements across Europe. Still, the real intensity of that exchange became obvious only recently, and due to the first, comprehensive bibliography of the magazine compiled by art historian Vida Golubović, and published as a supplement to the recently issued Zenit facsimile (Belgrade/Zagreb, 2008). Apart from the most influential avant-garde periodicals from Berlin, Paris and Moscow, the bibliography also points to Zenit’s collaboration with a number of similar, peripheral avant-garde hubs and small magazines, which formed a dense communication network covering the entire inter-war Europe. Approaching Zenit as an important node in that network, and relying on the available documentation, we are examining the nature, strength and spatio-temporal shifts in Zenit’s connections with other locations of the European avant-garde(s). We are also paying special attention to the individual “network actors” (artists, writers, art critics, art-dealers), to their spatial/temporal dynamics and to role they have played in translating and transferring concepts and ideas amongst different European communities. The result of our research – that will be presented at this conference by the series of data visualizations – reveals the unexpected cultural trajectories of Zenit’s network and provides the foundation for a different topography of the European interwar avant-garde.

historical avant-garde, avant-garde magazines, artists networks, social networks, network analysis

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