Naslov
Secession and Patriotism

Autori
Tomašegović, Nikola

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Art and the State in Modern Central Europe / - , 2021, 36-36

Skup
International Conference Art and State in Modern Central Europe (18th – 21st Century)

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 30.06.2021. - 03.07.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Secession ; Croatia ; fin de siècle ; Schorskean paradigm ; politics ; nation ; modernism

Sažetak
Even though they proclaimed a sharp break with the traditional liberal bourgeois culture of their “fathers”, which played a dominant role in Austrian society during most of the second half of the 19th century, the Viennese Secessionists soon found themselves under the patronage of the state. The new Austrian government, installed during the prolonged parliamentary crisis imposed by mutually combating nationalisms, saw in Secession a new supra-national form of art that could function as a unifying agent in creating a single Austrian cultural identity, a “Kunstvolk”. Therefore the Austrian government opted to generously sponsor the Secessionist movement, which in turn openly advocated for a universalist Austrian culture, underscored with marked Habsburg loyalism. Yet things did not go as planned, and the new art project fed fuel to the flames of old divisions, also creating new ones. At the same time, under the influence of Viennese developments, the Croatian Secessionist movement started to develop, but in a radically different political context. Croatian cultural institutions were mostly shaped by oppositional, nationalist elites, and the government acted primarily as a proponent of Hungarian, also nationalist politics. In this paper, I wish to explore how the Croatian Secessionist movement could have been politically located and used in the Croatian political and social nexus. Could it have been seen as an instrument to rejuvenate a particular, Croatian national culture, or as a supra-national, Habsburg and therefore a loyalist project? In examining this problem broader theoretical and methodological concerns regarding the conceptual framework of intellectual history come to the fore as well, dealing mostly with the possibilities of historical explanation of models of transfer and exchange between various actors in changing contexts.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest

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