The Invisible Genocide – Political Mobilization of the Romani People and Contemporary Romani Art Cover Image

Niewidzialna Zagłada – polityczna mobilizacja Romów a romska sztuka współczesna
The Invisible Genocide – Political Mobilization of the Romani People and Contemporary Romani Art

Author(s): Monika Weychert-Waluszko
Subject(s): Visual Arts, Aesthetics, Ethnohistory
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: contemporary Roma art;Roma People;Roma Genocide;agents of memory

Summary/Abstract: Among the consequences for Roma of the experience of the Genocide and the memoryof the Genocide were transformations of contemporary Roma identities and formationof a Roma political movement. At the same time contemporary Roma art wasdeveloping; Roma artists found themselves in a specific position – they became ‘agentsof memory’ and ambassadors of their community.

  • Issue Year: 46/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 59-74
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish