В търсене на национално-характерното (фолклорните мотиви във фотографските илюстрации през 50-те години на ХХ век)
Looking for the National Characteristics (The folklore motives in photographic illustrations of Soviet and Bulgarian magazines of the 1950s)

Summary/Abstract: The Socialist state often turned to the past for topics and stories, which following ideological treatment turned into major elements of its agitation and propaganda activities. In the search for the national characteristics it actively stimulated separate elements of the folklore, manipulated them and made them universal. The party proclaimed as an obligatory requirement for each work of socialist art to be “national in form and Socialist as content”. The “national form” supposed accessibility and realism – characteristics that aimed to satisfy the aesthetic and creative necessities of each member of society. The subject of traditions was one of the main in photographic illustrations of the socialist periodical press of the 1950s. The magazines published images of women and girls dressed in national costumes, children that are learning crafts, workers that in their free time with interest visited exhibitions of modern authors that were developing in a new way the traditions in their works.

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