State Construction and Art in East Central Europe, 1918–2018

Cover
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
	References
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
	Notes
	References
3. The Concept of Eastern Art and Self-Historicisation: The Slovenian Case
	Notes
	References
Part II: Nation- and State-Building Processes
4. Performing Everyday Activity, Creating Eternal: Ukrainian Art on the Fronts of the First World War
	Notes
	References
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
	Notes
	References
		Primary Sources
		Secondary Sources
6. The Archipenko Brothers: Discussions about National Art
	Notes
	References
Part III: Aestheticisation of Politics - Ideologisation of Aesthetics
7. In/Tolerance to Visual Anti-Semitism in Czechoslovakia 1918-1948
	Notes
	References
8. Art History and State Reconstruction in Greece in the 1950s and Early 1960s
	Introduction
	State Reconstruction in Greece in the Aftermath of World War II
	The Art-Historical Discourse between Ethnocentrism and Europeanism
	Notes
	References
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
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
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
	Notes
	References
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
	References
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
	Notes
	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
	References
14. 1956. Old Masters and the Ephemeral Borders
	European Art, a Controversial Label
	Dismantling Some Myths
	History and Geography in Flux
	Notes
	References
15. Somewhere Something
	Notes
	References
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
	Notes
	References
17. Local/Global Latvian Art at the Venice Biennale
	Notes
	References
18. \"Grey in Colour\" - Observations on the Reconstruction of Modernity
	Notes
	References
Part V: Architecture as Vehicle for State Cultural Policy
19. Cities in Interbellum Lithuanian Republic (1918-1940)
	Notes
	References
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
	Notes
	References
21. An Elite Place for the Masses: Prague Castle and its Role in the Legitimisation of Socialist Rule in Czechoslovakia (1948-1968)
	Notes
	References
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
	Introduction
	East Berlin: Capital of the German Democratic Republic
	Warsaw: Reconstructing the Polish Capital
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
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
	Notes
	References
Index