Lietuvos taikomoji dailė tarptautinėse tarpukario parodose (1937-1939)

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Lietuvių dailieji amatai; Lietuvių taikomoji dailė; Lietuvos dailieji amatai; Lietuvos prekybos, pramonės ir amatų rūmai; Lietuvos taikomoji dailė; Pasaulinė paroda Niujorke (1939); Pasaulinė paroda Paryžiuje (1937); Pasaulinė paroda „Menas ir technika šiuolaikiniame gyvenime" Paryžiuje (1937); Pasaulinė paroda „Rytojaus pasaulis" Niujorke (1939); Pirmoji tarptautinė amatų paroda Berlyne (1938); Prekybos, pramonės ir amatų rūmai; Rytų mugė Vokietijoje (1939); Vokietijos Rytų mugė (1939); Žemės ūkio rūmai; Chamber of Agriculture; Commerce, Industry and Crafts Chamber; East fair in Germany (1939); First International Crafts Exhibition (Berlin 1938); First international exhibition of crafts in Berlin (1938); German East Fair (1939); International Exhibition "Art and technology in modern life" (Paris 1937); International Exhibition "Tomorrow's World" (New York 1939); Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts; Lithuanian applied art; Lithuanian applied arts; Lithuanian handicrafts; World exhibition in New York (1939); World exhibition in Paris (1937).

ENThis article discusses the impact of international exhibitions of pre-war period (1937-1939) on the development of the applied arts in Lithuania. The pieces of the Lithuanian professional applied arts were first exposed to the international public at the pre-war international exhibitions of Paris (1937) and New York (1939) and the First International Exhibition of Crafts in Berlin (1938). Up to that lime, their place was taken by the examples of folk art and decorative arts. Building on the previously unpublished archival material and periodicals of the interwar period, the author attempts restoring the picture of preparation for these exhibitions: criteria for selection of artists and works to be exposed, tenders made for creation of specific artworks, reviews of contemporaries, etc. The facts discussed show that the exhibitions held in Paris, Berlin and New York evoked much discussion among the contemporaries with regard to the conception of exposition, selection of works, and the proportion of artworks and manufactured articles to be represented. At all the above-mentioned exhibitions, the Lithuanian applied art was represented by the same artists - Anastazija and Antanas Tamošaičiai, Jonas Prapuolenis, Liudvikas Strolis and others. Stereotypes as to how Lithuania should present itself to the world started developing, the echoes of which reach nowadays. They can be easily discerned at the current international events. Despite all the faults, the international exhibitions of the pre-war years were significant for the culture of that time, as they concentrated the efforts of artists and craftsmen, stimulated their self-confidence and allowed perceiving the qualities and defects of the Lithuanian applied arts. [From the publication]