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Влиянието на модерния национализъм върху формирането на представите за художествен стил
The Influence of the Modern Nationalism on the Forming of the Artistic Style Imaginations

Author(s): Nikolay Papuchiev
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Modern Age, Recent History (1900 till today), Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, 19th Century, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: museum; aesthetics; artistic style; nation; tradition

Summary/Abstract: Focusing on the modern Bulgarian culture in the period between 1878 and 1944, this article explores the role of modern nationalism in forming the special attitudes in Bulgarian society towards values of traditional culture. The main accent is put on the place of National ethnographic museum as a key element of creating and spreading the knowledge about the romantic past of the nation and its significance as a cultural heritage in the present. The next topic in the analysis is closely connected to the question of how museum acted as a mediator in the field of culture in the examined period. Why the modern Bulgarian urban population decorated its homes with things that are similar to (or the same as) the traditional ones, what was accepted as original and where is the place of the aesthetic – these are amongst the principal questions in the article.