The Africa Collection and Socialist Anticolonial Struggle in Náprstek Museum Exhibitions, 1948–1989

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://aaav.vda.lt/journal/article/view/294" target="_blank" >https://aaav.vda.lt/journal/article/view/294</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.37522/aaav.117.2025.294" target="_blank" >10.37522/aaav.117.2025.294</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Africa Collection and Socialist Anticolonial Struggle in Náprstek Museum Exhibitions, 1948–1989

Original language description

This paper focuses on exhibitions of African culture at the Náprstek Museum between 1948 and 1989. During this decolonisation period, Czechoslovakia maintained strong ties with Africa. This fact had a significant impact on the country&apos;s cultural sphere, inspiring numerous projects related to African themes. The Náprstek Museum in Prague was a unique institution within Czechoslovakia. It had all the prerequisites to serve as a showcase of the communist regime, demonstrating its relationship with the non-European world. This study examines exhibitions held from 1948 to 1989 in the context of the socialist approach to decolonisation-specifically, the extent to which the exhibitions dedicated to Africa were used as a tool for presenting official political positions. It also explores how African art was interpreted within the contemporary context and how it was presented to the Czechoslovak public. The main part of the research is based on previously unpublished archival materials from the Náprstek Museum.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis

ISSN

1392-0316

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

Neuveden

Issue of the periodical within the volume

117

Country of publishing house

LT - LITHUANIA

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

18-44

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

999