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Subject(s)

• Art—Political aspects [Browse]

Editor

• Chmielewska, Agnieszka [Browse]
• Kossowska, Irena [Browse]
• Lachowski, Marcin, 1975- [Browse]

Series

Routledge research in art history. [More in this series]

Summary note

"This volume offers a comprehensive perspective on the relationship between the art scene and agencies of the state in countries of the region, throughout four consecutive yet highly diverse historical periods: from the period of state integration after World War I, through the communist era post 1945 and the time of political transformation after 1989, to the present-day globalization (including counter-reactions to westernization and cultural homogenization). With twenty-four theoretically and/or empirically-oriented articles by authors from sixteen countries (East Central Europe and beyond, including the United States and Australia), the book discusses interconnections between state policies and artistic institutions, trends and the art market from diverse research perspectives. The contributors explore subjects such as the impact of war on the formation of national identities, the role of artists in image-building for the new national states emerging after 1918, the impact of political systems on artists' attitudes, the discourses of art history, museum studies, monument conservation and exhibition practices. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, cultural politics, cultural history, and East Central European studies and history"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Intro
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Why East Central Europe?
• Cultural Distinctiveness
• Art Exhibitions and Idioms of Identity in East Central Europe
• Diversified Artistic Landscape and the Debates on Art in East Central Europe
• Discursive Blind Spots
• Notes
• References
• Part I: Cultural Specificity of East Central Europe
• 1. History Too Fast
• A Case in Point: Hungary
• In Hindsight: Historic Episodes
• In the Concrete, and in General
• State Malfunction in Central and Eastern Europe
• 2. Universal or National? Making Art on the European Periphery
• Global Inequality of Cultures
• The World Republic of Letters
• National Literary Space on the Periphery
• Casanova and Visual Arts: The Polish Case
• Conclusion
• 3. The Concept of Eastern Art and Self-Historicisation: The Slovenian Case
• Part II: Nation- and State-Building Processes
• 4. Performing Everyday Activity, Creating Eternal: Ukrainian Art on the Fronts of the First World War
• 5. Civil War - Communist Upheaval - Attack of the White Slaughterers? The Civil Wars of 1917-1922 in Finnish and Soviet Karelian Literature
• Historical Outline
• The Civil Wars of Finland and Karelia in Literature: Literary Eye-Witnesses of the Finnish Civil War
• Literary Comments on the Karelian Civil War
• Depictions of the Civil Wars in the Following Decades
• Conclusion: Rhetoric and Ideology - Belles-Lettres and Politics
• Primary Sources
• Secondary Sources
• 6. The Archipenko Brothers: Discussions about National Art
• Part III: Aestheticisation of Politics - Ideologisation of Aesthetics.
• 7. In/Tolerance to Visual Anti-Semitism in Czechoslovakia 1918-1948
• 8. Art History and State Reconstruction in Greece in the 1950s and Early 1960s
• State Reconstruction in Greece in the Aftermath of World War II
• The Art-Historical Discourse between Ethnocentrism and Europeanism
• 9. Contesting Legitimacy: From the Photo Club to Fine Art Subjective Documentary-Andrejs Grants. Latvia: Changing and Unchanging Reality
• Hope and anticipation: artistic and political
• Rehabilitation of Latvianness
• Borderland images
• Portraits
• Carnival images: the comic, the grotesque and ambivalence
• Magic Realism: universal and particular
• The threshold
• Uncanny images
• Zen images
• 10. "Poles Forming Their National Flag": Artistic Reflections on the Transformation of the Political System in Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe
• The Question of the Universal Nature Of The Transformation Experience
• Native Icons of the Transformation and Their Distinctiveness
• Towards a Re-Constructive National Allegory
• Art in Times of Post-Transformation
• Part IV: Art Exhibitions as Political Instrument
• 11. Western Modern Art Exhibitions in the USSR in 1930s-1950s
• The All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
• The State Museum of the Modern Western Art
• The International Bureau of Revolutionary Artists
• The Art Affairs Committee
• 12. "The Lenin of Soviet Art Has Not Yet Been Born": Nascent Socialist Realism in Warsaw of 1933
• Soviet Art in Warsaw
• Thematic Canon
• A Search for a "Socialist Style of Proletarian Art
• Ideologisation of Aesthetics
• References.
• 13. From Hanoi and Havana to Paris and New York: Czecho-Slovak Cultural-Diplomatic Exhibitions during the Cold War
• Exotic Communist Vietnam and the Exhibition of "Czechoslovak Visual Art" in Hanoi, 1956
• The Iron Curtain Lifted: "L'art Ancien en Tchécoslovaquie" in Paris, 1957
• Revolution, Guns and Art: "El Arte Eslovaco Contemporáneo" in Havana, 1964
• The Prague Spring and Exhibitions of National Modern Art in Western Europe
• Cultural Diplomacy and "Modern Treasures from the National Gallery in Prague" in the Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1988
• Concluding Remarks
• 14. 1956. Old Masters and the Ephemeral Borders
• European Art, a Controversial Label
• Dismantling Some Myths
• History and Geography in Flux
• 15. Somewhere Something
• 16. Dreams and Nightmares: Nationalism in Art Exhibitions from Socialist Romania 1974-1989
• National Communism during Nicolae Ceaușescu's regime
• Song of Romania
• Ethno-Nationalism and Archaism: Dacia on Display
• Commemorative Exhibitions
• I am the State": Homage Art Exhibitions
• Ethnographic Art Exhibitions
• Conclusive remarks
• 17. Local/Global Latvian Art at the Venice Biennale
• 18. "Grey in Colour" - Observations on the Reconstruction of Modernity
• Part V: Architecture as Vehicle for State Cultural Policy
• 19. Cities in Interbellum Lithuanian Republic (1918-1940)
• 20. About Two Gems in the Stadtkrone of Kaunas, the Provisional Capital of Interwar Lithuania
• Several Key Facts about the City of Kaunas
• Symbolic Buildings in the Cityscape of Interwar Kaunas
• The Church of the Resurrection
• The Palace of the State in Kaunas
• Traces of the Expanding War in the History of the Palace of the State Competition
• Conclusions.
• 21. An Elite Place for the Masses: Prague Castle and its Role in the Legitimisation of Socialist Rule in Czechoslovakia (1948-1968)
• 22. One Ideology, Two Visions: Ecclesiastical Buildings and State Identity in the Socialist Capital During the Post-War Rebuilding Decades 1945-1975, East Berlin and Warsaw
• East Berlin: Capital of the German Democratic Republic
• Warsaw: Reconstructing the Polish Capital
• 23. Monument Preservation during Socialism: Restorations and Reconstructions of Hungarian Roman Catholic Churches in the 1960-70s
• 1 Historic Survey after World War II
• 2 Changing Circumstances around the 1960s
• Cooperative Negotiations between the State and the Roman Catholic Church
• Institutional Reorganization of the National Monument Preservation Authorities
• New Recommendations and Principles
• 3 Value-Centred Preservation Planning Methodology - Case Studies
• 4 Summary
• Acknowledgement
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1-00-326581-2
• 1-003-26581-2
• 1-000-65561-X
• 1-000-65568-7

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