The Seventh Life of Polish Folk Art and Craft
The Seventh Life of Polish Folk Art and Craft
Author(s): Ewa KlekotSubject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Customs / Folklore, Visual Arts, Recent History (1900 till today), Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , 19th Century
Published by: Hrvatsko etnološko društvo
Keywords: folk art; social construction; national ideology; Poland; ethnographic museum;
Summary/Abstract: The article explores the ways folk art in Poland has been socially constructed and used, from the late 19th- / early 20th-century interest among architects, designers, ethnographers and art historians, the People’s Republic of Poland’s “Cepelia”, to the contemporary folk art-inspired gadgets and design. The article maps out some of the circumstances and dynamics of the process of social construction of folk art in Poland, that relate to such central elements of modernity as primitivism and national ideology. It also scrutinizes folk art and craft-inspired tendencies in Polish design of the early 21st c. and the role of ethnographic museums in its promotion.
Journal: Etnološka tribina : Godišnjak Hrvatskog etnološkog društva
- Issue Year: 40/2010
- Issue No: 33
- Page Range: 71-85
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English