TRADITIONAL ČIČMANY ORNAMENTS
TRADITIONAL ČIČMANY ORNAMENTS

Summary/Abstract: The paper is devoted to ornamental tradition that in a historical perspective became a characteristic part of local architecture, clothing and decorations in Čičmany. The author formally analyses the ornamental motives and draws attention to particularities of the local ornamental style. She pays attention to social and environmental contexts. The paper describes the history of interest in Čičmany ornament and highlights the individuals and institutions that contributed to its continual development. The author examines contemporary visual aspects of ornamental tradition that has crossed boundaries of the local context and entered into the wider coordinates of global cultural circulation. It became a characteristic cultural component valued by experts as well as public, a cultural element transformed into the national representative symbol.

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