title: Modernism versus Modernism
abstract: Dividing twentieth-century art history into two time spans – before and after the Second World War – constitutes a common trait of Eastern and Western European historiography. In Romania, as throughout the entire Eastern Bloc, the split between these two periods was reinforced by the Communist takeover in the aftermath of the war and the imposition of the Soviet model on the cultural field. These two superimposed political events seem to have determined not only an almost perfect temporal separa