engleski

From Heimatkunst to Zagreb school

Tis paper gives an overview o attempts o theoreticians to construct a national identitybased on the existence o the national style and regional particularities in the works o the so-called Zagreb School o art photography. Comparing several theoretical texts on photography, irregularly published every ew years in three different political systems, it becomes evidentthat there is no significant difference among them and that same photographers used the same photos, or even purportedly different purposes. Te aim o the paper is to show that thereis no historical oundation or stylistic arguments or what certain photographers and criticscalled “the national or Zagreb style”. Tis specific style merely builds on the early-20 th -century pictorialism and it represents a politically promoted “homeland art” or Heimatkunst shapedthrough the medium o photography.

Zagreb School, Zagreb Photo Club, Heimatkunst , national identity, pictorialism

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