Decolonizing Central Europe : Czech Art and the Question of ‘Colonial Innocence’

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01973762.2022.2087168?src=" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01973762.2022.2087168?src=</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01973762.2022.2087168" target="_blank" >10.1080/01973762.2022.2087168</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Decolonizing Central Europe : Czech Art and the Question of ‘Colonial Innocence’

Original language description

The recent call to decolonize art history and the institutions of art have largely focused on the legacies of the major European and American colonial powers, such as Britain, France, Spain and the United States. Positioning Europe at the heart of modernity/coloniality prompts questions to do with how to place the states and cultures of east central Europe, none of which had colonial territories or engaged in projects of expropriation and colonial exploitation. It was along assumed that states such as Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic were little touched by the debate over decolonization, precisely because they had no overseas colonial empires. Belief in ‘colonial innocence’ was an important aspect of national self-definition. This article examines this conviction with reference to the specific case of the Czech lands and Czechoslovakia. Looking at practices of cultural representation, museum collecting and architecture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it suggests that the idea of colonial innocence is open to interrogation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

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Continuities

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

VISUAL RESOURCES

ISSN

0197-3762

e-ISSN

1477-2809

Volume of the periodical

37

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

30

Pages from-to

1-30

UT code for WoS article

000855808100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85138816309