Art and the State in Modern Central Europe (18th – 21st Century): Conference Proceedings
Synopsis
When the project Art and the State in Croatia from the Enlightenment to the Present was conceived in 2017, the central dissemination activity was planned to be an international conference, which would, on the one hand, present the work of the researchers on the project, and on the other hand, bring together other researchers whose interests revolve around the relationship between art and the state in Central Europe in the modern period. The conference was originally supposed to be held in the summer of 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the two earthquakes that hit Zagreb that same year, it was eventually held in a hybrid form in the summer of 2021.
Researchers from numerous European countries and the United States of America presented their new, original research on the most diverse aspects of the relationship between art and the state. More than half of them – forty-five in total – decided to publish their papers in the book of proceedings that is in front of you. The book contains nine sections arranged according to the topics covered in the papers.
The main areas of the authors’ research interest in terms of geography are the former Habsburg Empire, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the socialist Yugoslav state, the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. This is not surprising – not only do most of the authors come from the areas that used to be part of these political formations, but these areas are also extremely suitable for research on the relationship between art and the state. The political instability during the 20th century – especially the fragmentation of bygone empires and the ascendancy of nation-states – as well as the multi-ethnic and multi-confessional nature of these territories make them particularly suitable for studying the relationship between art and the state, transitional periods, political iconography, social and/or national relations, the influence of globalization, the phenomenon of damnatio memoriae and the like. This is precisely why everyone interested in modern and contemporary art history from the Baltic to the Mediterranean will find something to pique their interest in this collection.
Chapters
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Preface
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AESTHETIC POWERS OF AND FOR THE STATE
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“Mirroring the most cultured states of Europe”. Artistic scholarship and the development of heritage protection in the age of reason
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The commission for the collection and preservation of cultural monuments and antiquities and aristocratic art collections in eastern Croatia
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Political iconography in Hungarian art between the two World Wars: a case study on Károly László Háy’s fresco plan history (1942)
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National art at the Department of Art History of the University of Zagreb from its foundation to the 1970s in the context of state and political changes
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POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION, ARTISTIC CHANGE
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Creating the monarchy style in the time of emperor Francis I - the role of urban decorations and public monuments in Zagreb
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Looking beyond Vienna 1900: the political framework of the Croatian Secession
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Ukrainian photography in the 1990s: from paradigm shift to the new visual statement
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Maksimilijan Vanka’s Beautiful Jela Wove Three Wreaths
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THE POLITICS OF COMPETITIONS ANDEXHIBITIONS
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The echo of Ivan Meštrović’s participation in the International Fine Art Exhibition held in Rome in 1911 in his homeland
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The 1906 Imperial-Royal Austrian Exhibition in London: representing Dalmatia
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The strategy of self-presentation: the 1930s official exhibitions of Austrian and Hungarian art in Warsaw
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1930s competitions for the decoration of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in Belgrade and Croatian artists
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Looking at Zagreb: the public gallery as a popularizer of kinetic art and the Neo-Avant-Garde attitude
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ART(S) OF RESISTANCE
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Trends in the Latvian contemporary art scene, 1980–2020: examples of socio-political criticism and activism
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Torn between two states: leftist Latvian artists in Latvia in the 1920s and 1930s
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Art as an anti-systemic attitude: Milan Selaković in Pregled 218-226
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Censorship and self-censorship in political cartoons and caricatures from 1945 to 2020 in Croatia
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Examples of experimental art practice and international cultural collaborations during the 1960s and 1970s in the territory of the former Yugoslavia and socialist countries behind the Iron Curtain
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The silent protest of propaganda art. Case study of Latvian artist Jēkabs Bīne from 1945–1951
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SITES OF ARTISTIC POLITICS
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The fresco by Krsto and Željko Hegedušić in the palace of the Croatian Institute of History on 10 Opatička street from the year 1943: history painting in the context of the Independent State of Croatia
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Education, art, and politics: the altar of Saint Stephen at the Piarist Gymnasium Chapel in Nagybecskerek
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Statecraft: the artworks of Villa Zagorje in Zagreb
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The construction and reconstruction of Saint Alexander’s Church in Warsaw: building a state identity
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The Gallery of Rade Gerba: a historical anachronism in the twilight of the monarchy
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PERSONIFYING STATES
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Homage to a great man: interwar memorials to president Masaryk in Czechoslovakia
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Ferdinand V – the forgotten ruler
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Adventus of the monarch shaped for eternity: the relief of King Peter I on the city walls of Dubrovnik
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MONUMENTAL CHALLENGES
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Monstrum and imperial power: the archetype of the Colossus
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The erection of a royal monument as a city planning opportunity: the monument to King Alexander I and Plečnik’s South Square
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Monumentalism: sculptural means of interwar political representation in Hungary
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Trauma and identity: medialisation and construct
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POLITICAL ARCHITECTURE, THE ARCHITECTURE OF POLITICS
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The comparison of consecutive architectural legislations in Croatian lands from the Habsburg empire until the Independent State of Croatia
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Architecture master schools: communism, patriarchy, and pedagogy
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When the state builds. The architectural agenda of the K.K. Ministerium für öffentliche Arbeiten (1908–1918), the Bundesministerium für Handel und Verkehr and the Ministerstvo veřejných prací (1918–1938)
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Excellent architecture within the framework of post-2020 architecture policies
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Architectural and landscape design in Mariborsko Pohorje: between leisure planning and tourism development during Yugoslav socialism (1948–1980)
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THE CITY AS A POLITICAL CANVAS
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Architectural image and state power: Bucharest’s preparation to host the Fourth edition of the 1953 World Youth and Student Festival
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Architecture competitions in interwar Split: the state and the identity of the city
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