Description
This evocative and wide-ranging set of articles is a forceful demonstration of how much the experience of East-Central and Eastern Europe, largely neglected until now, needs to be integrated into evolving scholarship on the era of the world wars. The collection diagnoses the challenge of achieving an enlarged historical and artistic perspective, and then goes on to meet it. Themes that are universal (exile, loss, trauma, survival, memory) and the undying subjects of art and artistic efforts at representation, here find specific expression. The case of Lithuania and its diverse populations is revealed in its full significance for a modern European history of the impact of the age of the world wars.
About the Author
Giedre Jankeviciute 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 Valstybe ir daile: dailes 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 Lauckaite). She organized the international conference "Art and Artistic Life during Two World Wars" (Vilnius, 2011, with Laima Lauckaite) and edited a collection of articles with the same title prepared on the basis of the presentations read at the conference (2012, with Laima Lauckaite). 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.
Reviews
"...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, Jankeviciute and Zukiene 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
Book Information
ISBN 9781618115072
Author Giedr Jankeviit
Format Hardback
Page Count 326
Imprint Academic Studies Press
Publisher Academic Studies Press
About the Author
Giedre Jankeviciute 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 Valstybe ir daile: dailes 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 Lauckaite). She organized the international conference "Art and Artistic Life during Two World Wars" (Vilnius, 2011, with Laima Lauckaite) and edited a collection of articles with the same title prepared on the basis of the presentations read at the conference (2012, with Laima Lauckaite). 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.
Reviews
"...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, Jankeviciute and Zukiene 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
Book Information
ISBN 9781618115072
Author Giedr Jankeviit
Format Hardback
Page Count 326
Imprint Academic Studies Press
Publisher Academic Studies Press
