State Construction and Art in East Central Europe, 1918-2018

Agnieszka Chmielewska is Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Centre for Europe at the University of Warsaw.Irena Kossowska is Full Professor of Art History at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and the Polish Institute of World Art Studies in Warsaw.Marcin Lachowski is Associate Professor at the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw.

• Introduction Agnieszka Chmielewska, Irena Kossowska, and Marcin LachowskiPART I: Cultural Specificity of East Central Europe1. History Too FastÉva Forgács2. Universal or National? Making Art on the European PeripheryAgnieszka Chmielewska3. The Concept of Eastern Art and Self-Historicisation: The Slovenian CaseNadja GnamušPART II: Nation- and State-Building Processes 4. Performing Everyday Activity, Creating Eternal: Ukrainian Art on the Fronts of the First World WarSofia Korol5. Civil War – Communist Upheaval – Attack of the White Slaughterers? The Civil Wars of 1917-1922 in Finnish and Soviet Karelian LiteratureThekla Musäus6. The Archipenko Brothers: Discussion about National ArtVita SusakPART III: Aestheticization of Politics – Ideologization of Aesthetics7. In/Tolerance to Visual Anti-Semitism in Czechoslovakia 1918–1948Milan Pech8. Art History and State Reconstruction in Greece in the 1950s and Early 1960sLefteris Spyrou9. Contesting Legitimacy: From the Photo Club to Fine Art Subjective Documentary―Andrejs Grants. Latvia: Changing and Unchanging RealityPamela M. Browne10. "Poles Forming Their National Flag": Artistic Reflection on the Transformation of the Political System in Post-1989 Central and Eastern EuropePiotr MajewskiPART IV: Art Exhibitions as Political Instrument 11. Western Modern Art Exhibitions in the USSR in 1930s–1950sKatarina Lopatkina12. "The Lenin of Soviet Art Has Not Yet Been Born": Nascent Socialist Realism in Warsaw of 1933Irena Kossowska13. From Hanoi and Havana to Paris and New York: Czecho-Slovak Cultural-Diplomatic Exhibitions during the Cold WarMária Orišková14. 1956. Old Masters and the Ephemeral BordersPatricia García-Montón González15. Somewhere SomethingPavlína Morganová16. Dreams and Nightmares: Nationalism in Art Exhibitions from Socialist Romania 1974-1989Cristian Nae17. Local/Global Latvian Art at the Venice BiennaleStella Pelše18. "Grey in Colour" - Observations on the Reconstruction of ModernityMarcin LachowskiPART V: Architecture as Vehicle for State Cultural Policy 19. Cities in Interbellum Lithuanian Republic (1918-1940)Paulius Tautvydas Laurinaitis20. About Two Gems in the Stadtkrone of Kaunas, the Provisional Capital of Interwar LithuaniaGiedrė Jankevičiūtė21. An Elite Place for the Masses: Prague Castle and its Role in the Legitimisation of Socialist Rule in Czechoslovakia (1948–1968)Veronika Rollová22. One Ideology, Two Visions: Ecclesiastical Buildings and State Identity in the Socialist Capital During the Post-War Rebuilding Decades 1945-1975, East Berlin and WarsawMarcus van der Meulen23. Monument Preservation during Socialism: Restorations and Reconstructions of Hungarian Roman Catholic Churches in the 1960–70sErzsébet Urbán