Global Folk Art? The Paradoxes of Czechoslovak International Exhibitions
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Requested lectures |
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| Description | The paper focuses on the notion of folk art as it was understood in the interwar period. Seen as domestic and pre-industrial, folk art was associated with rural regions, not yet fully struck by modernisation and industrialisation. With such a definition, it was incorporated into the representations of the new Czechoslovak state based on simplistic distinctions. . Located next to the modernity and progress of the new Czechoslovak state, folk art played a key role in building a specific identity amongst various actors that took place on a global stage. It is therefore my aim to probe some of the interactions (one can say entanglements) with folk art that took place in the space of interwar international exhibitions and their wider context. |
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