PAUL DERMÉE AND THE NEW SPIRIT AT CONTIMPORANUL
PAUL DERMÉE AND THE NEW SPIRIT AT CONTIMPORANUL

Summary/Abstract: Paul Dermée and the New Spirit at Contimporanul. This paper aims to yield new insights into the network of international artistic collaborations associated with the magazine Contimporanul during its early years, particularly the special ties with the artist Paul Dermée. In light of a model of artistic sociability which seems to be specific to peripheral avant-garde journals, our focus on relay-figures like Dermée, a representative of the federative vocation of the avant-garde, serves to develop broader understanding of the programmatic and aesthetic trajectory of the Romanian magazine and its protagonists. Ultimately, this research demonstrates that the role of critical mediator played by Dermée is not only important in the accumulation of symbolic capital, but it can also help track the peripheral circuit and reception of various artistic movements, like Cubism, in the pages of the constructivist-oriented Contimporanul.

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