An examination of the cultural and artistic consequences of post-WWI nationalism in Europe.
World War I was a seismic event in Europe whose most concrete ramifications were the sweeping changes made to maps of the continent after 1918. A number of new, independent states were established in the wake of the Armistice, and these tectonic developments found varied expression in the arts, transforming the image of the continent both cartographically and artistically. This new edited collection focuses primarily on how modernism and the avant-garde responded to these geographic changes in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltic States, and Scandinavia. The contributors explore the clashes between the national, the transnational, and the cosmopolitan as they played out in diverse artistic genres. In many countries across Europe, the struggle for national independence—which in many cases began in the nineteenth century and culminated only after World War I—had important cultural and artistic consequences, which are only beginning to be understood. This book—copublished with Artefactum—provides a crucial new lens to rethink the methodological tools used to understand the complexity and the multiplicity of avant-garde forms in twentieth-century Europe, encouraging scholars to reconstruct global cultural history without tired nationalistic approaches.
Edited by:
Lidia Gluchowska,
Vojtech Lahoda
Imprint: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 165mm,
Spine: 48mm
ISBN: 9788024651217
ISBN 10: 8024651211
Pages: 321
Publication Date: 27 January 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
LIDIA GLUCHOWSKA, VOJTECH LAHODA, AND TOMÁŠ WINTER – Preface 6 LIDIA GLUCHOWSKA – Introduction: “The War to End all Wars”: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Avant-Garde and Modernist Studies on Visual Culture and Literature 12 LIDIA GLUCHOWSKA –International Expressionism as the style of WW1: Its adaptions and Evaluations 54 NINA GURIANOVA - The Russian Avant-Garde and The Great War: Visions and Utopias 88 OKSANA DUDKO – Ukrainian Legions of the WW1 and Their Artistic Documentation 110 ÉVA FORGÁCS – War as Psychological, Social and Intellectual Experience: The Concept of “National Art” and the First World War in Hungary. Lajos Fülep and the Dynamics of National and International 142 VENDULA HNÍDKOVÁ – Respect and Triumph: Intentions and Meanings of Czech Architecture before and after WWI 156 VOJTECH LAHODA – Transnational or National Cubism? Vincenc Kramár on Cubism 170 NAOMI HUME – Cut-and-Paste in Exile and War: Otto Gutfreund’s Parisian Collages 188 LIDIA GLUCHOWSKA – The Great World and the ‘New Art’ in Poland. Between the Patriotic Ethos, the Nationalisation of the Modernism and the International Attempts in Aesthetics 210 MICHAL WENDERSKI – Uncanonical Impulses to the Canon: Polish and Belgian Contributions to International Constructivism 244 HARRI VEIVO – Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and the Reconfigurations of the Map of Europe in the Discourse of Modernity in Finland in the 1920s 262 BENEDIKT HJARTARSON – Abstract Constructivism and the Case of Finnur Jónsson Universal Language — National Idiom? 286 GINTA GERHARDEUPENIECE – Art and the New Latvian State (1918–1920): Modernism — between Cosmopolitan Inspirations and a Substantive National Factor 314 TORBEN JELSBAK and DORTHE AAGESEN – The Aesthetics of Neutrality: The Impacts of World War I on Danish Art and Culture 336 ANNIKA GUNNARSON – Cosmonational: Neither National nor Cosmopolitan — But a Tinge of Avant-Garde Modernism 364 IRINA GENOVA – Modernism and the National Idea — Reflections of World War I: The Case of Bulgaria 382 ERWIN KESSLER – War as inverter in Romanian Art between 1912 and 1924 408 PETAR PRELOG – In Pursuit of National Identity: Croatian Modern Art before and after the Great War 434 EMILIO QUINTANA PAREJA – Don Quixote in the Trenches: The Birth of Avant-Garde Poetry in Spanish Language between Civilization and Barbarism 456 BELA TSIPURIA – Georgian Modernism, National Expectations and WWI 476 LIDIA GLUCHOWSKA – The Yiddish Artistic Networks around the Great War 496 STEVEN MANSBACH – Closing Remarks and General Reflections 534
Lidia Głuchowska is head of the Department of Art History and Theory at the Institute of Visual Arts at the University of Zielona Góra, Poland. Vojtěch Lahoda (1955–2019) was professor of art history at Charles University and director of the Czech Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Art History.
