Tautinė Individualybė Ir Lietuvių Meno Raidos Gairės (1918–1940)
National Individuality And Lithuanian Cultural Guidelines (1918–1940)

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the concept of Lithuanian national individuality that has been formed in the interwar discourse of culture studies and aesthetics. The prospects for the prosperity of the Lithuanian state, which reappeared on the map of Europe, were based on the creation of a peculiar national culture that could avoid the crisis of the Western civilization and adopt the classical cultural values of the human race. Stasys Šalkauskis and Antanas Maceina, authors of the most extensive studies on the issues of Lithuanian culture, provided different characterizations of the factors of ethnic origins and historical development that used to determine and still do the nature of the Lithuanian nation and its national individuality. The formation of the image of national character and attempts to provide a typological definition of the specificity of Lithuanian world-view that reflects itself in art – in addition to the authors mentioned, this subject was analysed by many others dealing with art issues – have become theoretical guidelines for the artistic creation.

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