Indefinite Faces of Modernism: Notes on Design in Interwar and Socialist Romania
Indefinite Faces of Modernism: Notes on Design in Interwar and Socialist Romania

Summary/Abstract: This research investigates the connections and intersections between the notion of Modernism and the development of Romanian design in the interwar and the socialist periods in relation to the European and international context. It also rehabilitates the history of Romanian design, born under the communist regime, suggesting the manner in which a history seen as minor and peripheral is historically and theoretically an integral part of the so-called major, hierarchized, and non-inclusive Western canonical history of modern industrial design. Furthermore, this points to the fact that the revealing of recent and fragile history of Romanian design coincides with the fifty-year anniversary of the first Romanian higher education program of design created in 1969 at “Nicolae Grigorescu” Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest.

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