An Introduction to the Classical Modern Art of Bulgaria

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For more than a half century the history of modern art has been presented in the West as if twentieth-century culture had been almost exclusively created in and defined by a succession of styles in Paris, Munich, New York, Berlin, or London. The narrative resulting from this now canonical perspective has foreclosed a more historically accurate appreciation of the richness, diversity, and complexity of the classical modern art created throughout Europe, the Americas, and beyond. Since the 1960s, however, there has been a notable broadening of the conventional chronicle of modern art, as the role of the Russian avant-garde and of those east Europeans who elected (or were compelled) to …