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Aleksandra Stamenković, PhD
Faculty of Digital Arts, Belgrade Metropolitan University
Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

 

YUGOSLAV PAVILIONS AT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS IN ARTISTIC AND POLITICAL DISCOURSE 1918–1941

Vol. XL, 2/2022, pp. 301–322
https://doi.org/10.29362/ist20veka.2022.2.sta.301-322

 

ABSTRACT/RESUME:

This article is supposed to reveal insufficiently researched facts about the Serbian and Yugoslav performances at international exhibitions between the Two World Wars. The focus was on the architecture of national pavilions. Since the specific ideologies symbolically shaped the pavilions, this engaged function demanded a correlation of observing methodology with the other scientific areas. Researching the context imposed a review of the pavilions in which the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Kingdom of Yugoslavia represented itself during this period. In terms of the applied styles, those buildings were an acceptable model for national architecture. Because of the vocabulary leaned towards Modernism, it was necessary to look at the ideological frameworks imposed by time and motives rhetoric. All the examples illustrated the attempts to create a model suitable for representative purposes, with the possibility of adapting to different ethnical traditions and historical narratives. Accordingly, architecture became the materialization of social processes that promoted suitability as a new aesthetic category. That feature can be followed in different periods and modes, initiating simultaneously new, but more specialized research.

 

KEYWORDS: National Pavilions, International Exhibitions, King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (Karadjordjević), The Yugoslav Idea

 

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