State strategy of international art exhibitions in interwar Lithuania 1918-1940

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Anglų kalba / English
Title:
State strategy of international art exhibitions in interwar Lithuania 1918-1940
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Arts. 2024, 13, 19, p. 1-21
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ENThe Republic of Lithuania was one of several young nation-states that re-established or proclaimed their statehood in the aftermath of the First World War, following the dissolution of empires in Europe. The quest for cultural identity and attempts at its representation within the country, in the region, and on the international stage was the crucial element in the nation-building process, where cultural diplomacy played a pivotal role. For Lithuania, as for most European countries of that era, exhibitions, especially art exhibitions or art sections in the case of world shows (for instance, the Expo 1937 in Paris or the New York World’s Fair in 1939), served as a prominent means of expressing its identity. An overview of the Lithuanian state art exhibition strategy, the dynamics of its organizational process, the exhibition content, and their geographical reach are discussed in the article. To comprehensively grasp Lithuania’s cultural strategy and to reconstruct the network of its artistic connections, foreign art exhibitions organized at the state level and the acquisition of artifacts from these exhibitions for Lithuania’s national art collection, the M. K. Čiurlionis Art Gallery, are briefly reviewed as well. Keywords: international art exhibition; cultural diplomacy; Lithuania; nationalism; identity; representation; modernism. [From the publication]

DOI:
10.3390/arts13010019
ISSN:
2076-0752
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2025-02-27 10:13:24
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