This article focuses on the city of Trieste, its special features for the Slovenian avant- garde, and the interaction of its artists with nearby urban centers: Gorizia, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Novo Mesto, and Belgrade. It explores how, paradoxically, this multicultural city was one of the essential breeding grounds of Slovenian avant-garde literature, painting, and theater of Černigoj’s constructivist circle, Kosovel’s poetry, and Delak’s performances. Thus, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Trieste became a place of global artistic transitions.
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