K institucionálnímu vývoji lidové umělecké výroby v Československu po roce 1945
On the Institutional Development of Folk Art Production in Czechoslovakia after 1945

Summary/Abstract: The study focuses on the phenomenon of institutionalization of folk art productionin Czechoslovakia after 1945. The main attention is paid to the public corporation called theCenter of Folk Art Production, which was established on the basis of the President’s decreeimmediately after the end of World War II. This center existed after 1948, and for the next fewdecades it has become a means of development, cultivation, as well as basic research. folkproduction and crafts during the communist regime. The text focuses mainly on the main trendsin the field of folk production and also on the question of linking the professional and artisticcomponents of the state organization with commercial aspirations (shops Krásna jizba). Whencompiling a chronological review of this institution, the author combines data from the literaturepublished after 1989 with period information from articles published before 1989 in themagazine Umění a řemesla.

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