From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the First Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale – From the world of Agnes Daroczi to the world of Daniel Baker Cover Image

Od upadku Muru Berlińskiego do pierwszego Pawilonu Romskiego na weneckim Biennale – od świata Ágnes Daróczi do świata Daniela Bakera
From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the First Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale – From the world of Agnes Daroczi to the world of Daniel Baker

Author(s): Thomas Acton
Contributor(s): Sławomir Kapralski (Translator)
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Visual Arts, Sociology
Published by: Muzeum Okręgowe w Tarnowie
Keywords: Roma and Sinti; art; movement; politics; Agnes Daróczi; Daniel Baker; Berlin wall

Summary/Abstract: The author presents the evolution of the attitude towards the art of Roma artists, who in the past were often perceived as representatives of a folk art, and who are now professional artists whose work often does not have any connection with the ethnicity of their authors. The author critically analyses the concept of authenticity in art by pointing out the presence of diverse aesthetic traditions in the works of Roma artists and concludes that the ethnicity of an artist is unimportant and the contemporary generation of Roma artists has escaped the stigma of an ethnic art.

  • Issue Year: 9/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 19-29
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English, Polish, Romany