Gavazzijevo određenje hrvatske narodne umjetnosti i mogućnosti daljnjega istraživanja
Gavazzi's Definition of Croatian Folk Art and Possibilities for Further Research

Summary/Abstract: The author gives a thorough review of the book Croatian Folk Art, published in 1944 by Milovan Gavazzi. It is so far the most complete presentation of ethnographic art material in Croatia. Gavazzi's main thesis, in tune with his cultural-historic paradigm, is the definition of folk art within the framework of peasant culture, and the distinction between autochthonous core and more recent imports from other cultural spheres. The author broadens Gavazzi's definition of folk art, complementing it with certain standpoints found in theoretical works by domestic and foreign scientists, as well as with her own insights into the materials stored at Ethnographic museum in Split. The author suggests a widening of the concept of folk art to popular art production more generally, so that it would include both rural and urban popular art. Furthermore, she points to the importance of studying the process of popularization of an artistically shaped object and to a need for applying formal analysis to studying certain groups of objects, to which Gavazzi had applied a cultural rather than formal analysis.

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