A new article by research fellow Christian Drobe, ‘Alma Karlin and Alice Schalek Look East: Travel Writing by Central European Women in the Interwar Period,’ has been published in Austrian Studies.
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The 2023 issue of Art East Central is now out
The new issue of the open access journal Art East Central is now out! Introduced by Marta Filipová, the issue focuses on exhibitions of central and eastern European art and design. It features four articles based on papers presented at the CRAACE workshop ‘Exhibitions, New Nations and the Human Factor, 1873–1939’ held at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art in Paris on 4 and 5 April 2022. Julia Secklehner’s essay discusses the Austrian contribution to the 1925 Paris International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts and the role of the modern woman designer in light of the exhibition’s focus on the modern female consumer. Mira Kozhanova explores how, at the same exhibition, the Soviet Union constructed an official narrative of national renewal through a sophisticated exhibition concept that complemented contemporary art (particularly constructivism) with arts and crafts. In turn, Elizaveta Berezina examines the Soviet pavilion at the 1937 Paris World’s Fair and the endeavours of the Scientific Research Institute of Art Industry to arrange a collection of Soviet crafts for international display. Joanna Wolańska’s article focuses on Poland at the World Exhibition of the Catholic Press held in Vatican City in 1936. The fifth article in the issue, by Pavla Machalíková, investigates a different time period, discussing the first art exhibitions in Prague in the nineteenth century and the shaping of modern exhibition spaces.
In addition to the five essays, the issue also features reviews of books on Jewish cultural identity in central European modernism, the Warsaw group Rytm and modernist classicism, Toyen and the surrealist erotic, the Czech architect Jan Kotěra, national art and culture in Poland before the First World War, and the history of Czech architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Read the new issue here: arteastcentral.eu
Artwork of the Month, October 2023: The ABC of Women by Lisl Weil (1933)
Found under the heading ‘The ABC of Women,’ nineteen women feature across a double page spread, some appearing to pose for a portrait sketch, others following activities such as dancing, painting, giving manicures or milking a cow. Dressed in clothing that varies from folk costumes to turn-of-the-century reform dress, sportswear, show costumes and fashionable fur coats, they come from a variety of social and cultural backgrounds, are of different ages and follow different professions. The cartoon depicts numerous possibilities of what women could look like in the early 1930s, playing with stereotypes in a good-humoured and non-malicious manner.
New article by Julia Secklehner on the New Woman and Austria’s rural modernity
An article by CRAACE Research Fellow Julia Secklehner, ‘Eine andere Moderne? Neue Frauen am Land in the 1930er Jahren,’ has been published in the journal zeitgeschichte.
New article by Christian Drobe on War Painting and the Soldier as the New Man
An article by research fellow Christian Drobe, ‘War Painting and the Soldier as the New Man: Karl Sterrer’s Pilot Portraits and the Ambivalent Face of Heroism during the First World War‘ has just been published in the RIHA Journal.