Art of Identity and Memory

Giedrė Jankevičiūtė is a senior researcher at the Art History and Visual Culture Department of the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute and teaches at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Her current field of interest lies in artistic culture of occupied countries. Her monographs include Valstybė ir dailė: dailės gyvenimas Lietuvos Respublikoje 1918–1940 (Art and State: Art and Artistic Life in the Lithuanian Republic, 1918–1940, 2003) and The Graphic Arts in Lithuania 1918–1940 (2008). She has edited the catalogues Under the Red Star: Lithuanian Art in 1940–1941 (2011) and The Realities of Occupation: Posters in Lithuania during World War I and World War II (2014, with Laima Laučkaitė). She organized the international conference “Art and Artistic Life during Two World Wars” (Vilnius, 2011, with Laima Laučkaitė) and edited a collection of articles with the same title prepared on the basis of the presentations read at the conference (2012, with Laima Laučkaitė). Currently she is writing a monograph on Lithuanian art and artistic culture from 1939 to 1944 and compiling a book on the art historian Mikalojus Vorobjovas (Nikolai Worobiow, 1903–54), who was active in Lithuania in the mid-twentieth century.

• Preface Vejas Gabriel LiuleviciusForewordGiedrė Jankevičiūtė and Rasutė ŽukienėChapter 1: The Art of Walking in Wartime WilnaLaimonas BriedisChapter 2: Jewish Vilnius in the Works of German ArtistsLaima Laučkaitė-SurgailienėChapter 3: The Diaries of DeathAgnė NarušytėChapter 4: Art as a Narrative of Everyday Life in Lithuania during World War IIGiedrė JankevičiūtėChapter 5: Trying to Survive: The Activity of Exiled Baltic Artists in Germany in 1945–1950Rasa ŽukienėChapter 6: The Memory and Representation of World War I in LithuaniaRasa AntanavičiūtėChapter 7: The Limits of the Blockade ArchiveNatalija ArlauskaitėChapter 8: Constructing Blocks of Memory: Post-Holocaust Narratives of Jewish VilnaLarisa LempertienėChapter 9: World War II Memory and Narratives in the Music of the Lithuanian Diaspora and Soviet LithuaniaRūta StanevičiūtėAuthorsList of IllustrationsIndex

"...Lithuania in the two world wars has been studied extensively by military, political, and social historians but has been given little attention by researchers of culture and art. With this selection of modern Lithuanian scholarship from an impressive array of disciplines, Jankevičiūtė and Žukienė have taken a welcome step toward correcting that omission. They have composed a collection of interest to a readership beyond that of students of modern Baltic history; the articles engage equally with film and music theory, memory studies, and narrative theory." — Slavic Review, 77.3