THE CHILEAN MUSEUM OF SOLIDARITY AND TRANSREGIONAL LINKS WITH ROMANIA DURING THE COLD WAR
THE CHILEAN MUSEUM OF SOLIDARITY AND TRANSREGIONAL LINKS WITH ROMANIA DURING THE COLD WAR

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses the transregional connections established by the Chilean Museum of Solidarity with socialist countries in Eastern Europe, and in particular with Romania. The analysis employs theories of the cultural Cold War, transnational and transregional studies, and especially the transnational and cross-regional analysis of cultural relations and artistic expressions, to discuss an example of “cultural transnationalism” (Dragostinova and Fidelis) of the Socialist Second World. Through a micro-history approach of the Global Cold War regarding the relationship between Romania and the Museum of Solidarity, this study aims to enhance the understanding of relations between the East and the South as being politicized by the highly bureaucratized cultural institutions. If cultural relations were important in establishing an autonomous policy such as that of Ceausescu, the type of artistic exchanges promoted were the expression of an aesthetic paradox, supporting a traditionalist, nationalist version of art.

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