Rodin in Prague
Modern Art, Cultural Diplomacy, and National Display
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4754056 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cathleen M Giustino (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 591-619 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s003767790001216x |
| OpenAlex | W2587019983 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 24 |
Fin-de-siècle Prague, a provincial capital city in the Habsburg empire, was a site of Czech-German nationality conflict. In 1902 it was also home to the largest exhibition of Auguste Rodin's art outside France during his life. Due to the nationalism that enveloped Czech culture and politics, the Rodin spectacle was no mere display of modernism. National activists in the Manes Association of Visual Artists, including Stanislav Sucharda and Jan Kotera, designed the Rodin exhibition to advance Czech cultural maturity through cosmopolitan art and to convince foreigners of the Czech nation's singularity, unity, and progressiveness. Ultimately, though, the events surrounding the exhibition of Rodin's works in Prague projected Czech disagreement over the meanings of folk heritage and western progress for national identity. Still, the blending of modern display and cultural diplomacy strengthened French-Czech relations and in small but significant ways helped secure Czechoslovakia's creation at the end of World War I
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Czech · Diplomacy · Exhibition · German · Immigration · Modernism (music · National identity · Nationalism · Nationality · Political science · Politics · Spectacle · Central European national history · European Cultural and National Identity · French Historical and Cultural Studies · History · Law
Ephemeral Vistas
The love of art
All the World's a Fair
The Life of Edvard Beneš 1884–1948
Budweisers into Czechs and Germans
Empire on Display
The Invention Of Tradition
Battle for the castle
Races on Display
Eroticism and the Body Politic
Fair Representations
Prague-Vienna, Prague-Berlin
Races on Display
The Politics of Ethnic Survival
Troubled Anthropologists
International Exhibitions and National Identity
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |