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- Title
Cultural nationalism of the interwar period: Latvian visual art and folklore.
- Authors
Ķencis, Toms
- Abstract
The interwar period in Europe marks a tendency towards authoritarian leaders in politics as well as the classicizing practices of the visual arts. However, the extent and modality of both tendencies vary from state to state: mapping differences and similarities leads towards greater understanding of each national history. The particularity of Latvian art life is a comparatively substantial use of folklore motifs and representation of pagan mythology, going hand in hand with overall ethnolinguistic nationalism agenda and related state cultural policy. Despite the coexistence of various artistic styles, in regard to content and intentions of artworks, the interwar period can be characterized by the turn from National Romanticism to Romantic Nationalism. The historical outline and theoretical discussion of folklore representations are illustrated by three case studies, analysing the biographies, ideas, and works of Latvian artists Ansis Cīrulis, Jēkabs Bīne, and Niklāvs Strunke.
- Subjects
CULTURAL nationalism; ART; CULTURAL policy; FOLKLORE; ARTISTIC style
- Publication
Nations & Nationalism, 2020, Vol 26, Issue 1, p155
- ISSN
1354-5078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/nana.12573