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The Art of Identity and Memory

Toward a Cultural History of the Two World Wars in Lithuania

Herausgeber: Jankevi¿i¿t¿, Giedr¿; ¿Ukien¿, Rasut¿

Beschreibung

Demonstrates how the experience of East-Central and Eastern Europe needs to be integrated into evolving scholarship on the world wars. Universal themes and subjects of art find specific expression. The case of Lithuania is revealed in its full significance for a modern European history of the impact of the age of the world wars.

Autor

Rasut¿ ukien¿ has been teaching at the Department of Art History and Criticism of Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania) since 1991. Her research interests include the works of the Lithuanian symbolist artist and composer Mikalojus Konstantinas ¿iurlionis (1875¿1911), twentieth-century modernist art of Lithuania, and the art by Lithuanian émigrés in Europe and North America. She has published several academic monographs, among them Mikalojus Konstantinas ¿iurlionis tarp simbolizmo ir modernizmo (Mikalojus Konstantinas ¿iurlionis between Symbolism and Modernism, 2004) and Akistatos: Dailininkas Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas pasaulio meno keliuose (Encounters: Artist Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas on the Roads of World Art, 2007). In her studies of the heritage of V. K. Jonynas over the last several years, ukien¿ has been exploring the work of displaced persons¿Lithuanian émigré artists¿in postwar Germany (1945¿50) and the transformations of their work after they moved to other continents.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 655g
• ISBN-13: 9781618115072
• ISBN-10: 1618115073
• Artikelnr.: 44580145