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Prague, Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Husova 4, 110 00 Praha 1November 27 - 28, 2014This workshop follows up on discussions that were initiated at an international symposium in Stockholm: The European Artistic Avant–Garde c. 1910-1930: Formations, Networks and Transnational Strategies (11–13 September 2013). It focuses on one particular aspect of the avant-garde and modernism, namely, the clash therein of the national, the transnational and the cosmopolitan. In the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, but to some extent in Scandinavia too, the struggle for national independence, which in most cases began in the 19th century and culminated during and after World War I, had important cultural and artistic consequences. The symposium will track the changes in and compare the nationalist rhetorics in modern and avant garde art just before the outbreak of WWI, as well as during and after the war. After 1917 the map of Europe changed dramatically. A number of new, independent states were established, and these developments found expression in every genre of the visual arts and transformed the image of the continent. The papers presented in this workshop focus primarily, but not exclusively, on modernism and the avant-garde in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics and Scandinavia. There are also papers that describe the dissemination and translation of avant-garde language in régions and countries at the fringes of Europe. Some questions we would like to discuss are: How was the understanding of nationalism and the post-WWI avant-garde affected by historiography, especially that of the 1950s and later? To what extent were nationalism and cosmopolitanism part of avant garde and modern-art discourse before WWI and how did the understanding of them change during the war? What relationship did the avant-garde have to traditional and to official art in terms of their views on nationalism? What different kinds of nationalisms resulted from the national revival movements of Czechs, Croats, Slovenes and Poles in the late 19th century within the Austro Hungarian Empire, or of Poles and Lithuanians in Czarist Russia? And, on the other side, in what sense was the postwar avant-garde in the newly founded countries (Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Baltic States etc.) an expression of cosmopolitanism? The workshop will serve as a platform for rethinking the methodological tools we use to understand and explain the complexity and the multiplicity of avant-garde forms in these regions of Europe, a subject that is still under-researched.PROGRAMMEThursday 27 November 20149.00–9.30 Reception, coffee9.30–9.45Introduction: Lidia Głuchowska / Vojtěch LahodaSection 1Moderator: Steven Mansbach9.45–10.15Nina Gourianova, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USAWar as Medium: The Great War in the Russian Avant-Garde10.15–10.45Benedikt Hjartarson, University of Iceland, Rijekjavík, IcelandAbstract Constructivism: Universal Language – National Idioms10.45–11.00 Coffee breakSection 2Moderator: Steven Mansbach11.00–11.30Erwin Kessler, Institute of Philosophy, Romanian Academy, Bucharest,RomaniaThe Use, Abuse and Misuse of Cubism in the Romanian Avant-Garde11.30–12.00Bela Tsipuria, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, GeorgiaGeorgian Modernists Rethinking Nationalism: The Impact of WWI and the Russian Revolutions12.00–12.30Irina Genova, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, BulgariaModernism and the National Idea – Reflections of WWI: The Case of Bulgaria in the Context of South-Eastern Europe12.30–14.00 Lunch breakSection 3Moderator: Lidia Głuchowska14.00–14.30Harri Veivo, University of New Sorbonne, Paris, France / University of Helsinki, FinlandCentred and Decentred Cosmopolitanisms in Finland in the 1920s and Early 1930s14.30–15.00Heie Treier, Tallinn University, EstoniaCubism and the Start of Avant-Garde in Estonia15.00–15.30Ginta Gerharde-Upeniece, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, LatviaArt and the New Latvian State (1918–1920): Modernism as a Cosmopolitan Idea and a Substantive National Factor15.30–15.45 Coffee breakSection 4Moderator: Charlotte Bydler15.45–16.15Annika Gunnarsson, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden'Cosmonational' – Neither National Nor Cosmopolitan – But a Tinge of Avant-Garde Modernism16.15–16.45Torben Jelsbak, Roskilde University, DenmarkNationalist and Internationalist Discourses Surrounding the Modernist Breakthrough in Danish Art and Culture during WWIFriday 28 November 20149.00–9.15 CoffeeSection 5Moderator: Benedikt Hjartarson9.15–9.45Éva Forgács, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, USA / IWM, ViennaThe Concept of 'National Art' and World War I in Hungary: Lajos Fülep and the Dynamics of 'National' and 'International'9.45–10.15Lidia Głuchowska, PolandThe Great World and the 'New Art' in Poland: Between the Patriotic Ethos, the Nationalisation of Modernism and International Attempts in Aesthetics10.15–10.45Michal Wenderski, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland'Uncanonical' Impulses to the 'Canon': Polish and Belgian Contribution to International Constructivism10.45–11.00 Coffee breakSection 6Moderator: Vojtěch Lahoda11.00–11.30Joana Cunha Leal, Art History Institute, New University of Lisbon, Portugal'A bridge too far?': The War Effect in the Portuguese and Spanish Avant-Gardes11.30–12.00Emilio Quintana, Instituto Cervantes, Stockholm, SwedenLanguages of the Avant-Garde between Poland and Spain: Tadeusz Peiper and Spanish Modernism after WWI12.00–14.00 Lunch breakSection 7Moderator: Éva Forgács14.00–14.30Ljiljana Kolešnik, Institute of Art History, Zagreb, CroatiaMigrating Signifiers – Socialist Croatian Post-WWII Art History and Its Relation to the Inter-War Avant-Garde14.30–15.00Lenka Bydžovská, Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, PragueThe Trojan Horse in the Trade Fair Palace: The Slav Epic versus the Czech Avant-Garde15.00–15.30Vendula Hnídková, Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, PragueRespect and Triumph: The Intentions and Meanings of Czech Architecture before and after WWI15.30–15.45 Coffee breakSection 8Moderator: Tomáš Winter15.45–16.15Naomi Hume, Seattle University, USACut-and-Paste in Exile and War: Otto Gutfreund's Parisian Collages16.15–16.45Vojtěch Lahoda, Czech RepublicTransnational or National Cubism? Vincenc Kramář on Cubism16.45–17.15Closing Remarks: Steven MansbachOrganizers:Professor Vojtěch Lahoda, Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, PragueDr. Lidia Głuchowska, Institute of Visual Arts, University of Zielona Góra, Poland / Humanities Faculty, University of Bamberg, GermanyScientific Committee:Charlotte Bydler, PhD., School of Culture and Education and the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University, Stockholm, SwedenPhDr. Lenka Bydžovská, CSc., Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, PragueDr. Lidia Głuchowska, Institute of Visual Art, University of Zielona Góra, Poland / Humanities Faculty, University of Bamberg, GermanyProfessor Vojtěch Lahoda, Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, PragueProfessor Steven Mansbach, University of Maryland, College Park, USAPhDr. Tomáš Winter, PhD., Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, PragueContact:Vojtěch Lahoda: lahoda@udu.cas.czLidia Głuchowska: ligl@wp.plAddress:Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech RepublicHusova 4, 110 00 Prague 1Contact: Blanka Švédová: svedova@udu.cas.cz, +420 221 183 501There is no conference registration fee.Source: "CONF: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism (Prague, 27-28 Nov 14). In:H-ArtHist, Nov 21, 2014".