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Ars Una? 20th-Century Romanian Art And Architecture
02/1999
In its self-conscious, modern sense, Romanian art is basically an ideological product developed by the late 19th century and the early 20th century, in the euphoric (and at the same time phobic) atmosphere of national revival and international suspicion. It is precisely the fact that the national artistic profile emerged as "revolutionary", under political pressure and in a thoroughly ideological milieu, instead of gradually fermenting in artists' studios, that reveals the primary modernism of the burgeoning Romanian art of the time.
Erwin KESSLER
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