ERC Starting Grant · 2025
This project investigates the interaction between workers’ movements and the transnational scene of modern art. The avant-garde forever transformed the relationship between art and everyday life. This project argues that this shift not only dynamized the art world but also extended well beyond the confines of the cultural sphere, transforming the working-class communities in the successor states of the Austro–Hungarian Empire as well, where avant-garde art played a pivotal role in creating a workers’ movement counterculture. The project postulates that the transnational avant-garde scene, and especially the related network of periodicals, enabled reciprocal interactions. The amalgamation of…
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