190 Pages
10 Color & 29 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
190 Pages
10 Color & 29 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
This study examines the role played by regional cultures in modern art and visual culture in Central Europe between 1918 and 1938.
Analysing paintings, photographs, prints, and illustrated magazines in relation to topics such as tourism, social activism, rural exoticism, gender, and ethnic diversity, the book offers a fresh perspective on Central European art and visual culture. It pays... Read more
1. Dreams of Autonomy: Regionalism as Post-War Regeneration 2. Constructing the Countryside: Regionalism’s Rise to Soft Diplomacy 3. Paradise of Leisure: The Modern Countryside in Tourism, Fashion, and Popular Culture 4. Rural Utopia: Heimat Photography between Popular Nationalism and Modernist Experimentation 5. Socialist Dystopia? Leftist Visual Culture and Rural Margins as a Political Battleground 6. Rural Exotic: The Countryside as a Place of Difference
Biography
Julia Secklehner is a Research Fellow at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic.
