Escaping the Everyday Life: Artists’ Holidays at 2 Mai and Vama Veche in the Communist Era
Escaping the Everyday Life: Artists’ Holidays at 2 Mai and Vama Veche in the Communist Era
Author(s): Iuliana DumitruSubject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural history, Local History / Microhistory, Oral history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Centrul de Studii Memoriale și Identitare
Keywords: Holidays; Bohemian; Communism; Daily Life; Seaside; Border; Real vs. Imaginary Space;
Summary/Abstract: During communism, the villages of Vama Veche and 2 Mai became a mythological place for the cultural and artistic bohemian. Artists and intellectuals came there during the summer in order to work and relax in a space where the authorities chose to stay away (at least in a visible way). This indulged „freedom” transformed the area in a safe space for their daily interaction and activities, beyond borders and limitations. After the fall of communism, this area became a kind of „lieu de mémoire” revisited mostly in the imagination while invested with the aura of sacredness.
Journal: MemoScapes. Romanian Journal of Memory and Identity Studies
- Issue Year: 4/2020
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 72-83
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
