1st Edition
Photography and Cultural Heritage in the Age of Nationalisms Europe's Eastern Borderlands (1867–1945)
By Ewa Manikowska
Copyright 2018
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
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The second half of the 19th century was a time of extensive political upheaval in central east Europe that saw the negotiation of conflicting territorial claims in the region by the Russian, Austrian and Prussian empires. The post-WW1 settlement gave rise to the formation of the independent nation states of Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Latvia and Belarus. Less well know is that this same period was... Read more
List of Illustrations1. Introduction2. The Imperial Gaze: Photography and the Cultural Appropriation of the Borderlands3. Unofficial Views: Voluntary Associations, Photographic Surveys and the Quest for National Self-Determination4. Mapping the New Political Order: Cultural Heritage, the Photographic Album and the Post-WWI Peace Negotiations5. 'Imperial Practices': Picturing Polish Official Cultural Heritage in the Iconographic Archive6. Neglected Visions: Lithuanian, Ukranian and Jewish Narratives7. From the Civilizing Mission to Cultural Germanisation: Ostforschung and the Photographic Survey Archive8. Conclusions: Afterlives and LegaciesBibliographyIndex
Biography
Ewa Manikowska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. She has presented and published many papers and chapters on survey photography and cultural heritage in the Polish lands of the Russian Empire.
