Modernizacja i nowa Europa Środkowo-Wschodnia

Modernizacja i nowa Europa Środkowo-Wschodnia

Bibliographic description

title:	Modernizacja i nowa Europa Środkowo-Wschodnia
alternative title:	Modernization and the new East-Central Europe
author:	Szczerski Andrzej
Journal title:	Studia Komitetu Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania Kraju
issue:	180
date of publication:	2017
pages:	30-35
ISSN:	0079-3507
URL:	http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/journal/110260
date accessed:	2018-08-30
language:	Polish
Journal language:	Polish
abstract in english:	Modernisation and New Central and Eastern Europe 1918-1939. The political map of Europe formed after 1918 did not have historical precedents. The emergence of the “New” Central and Eastern Europe meant the introduction of separate modernization programmes and the creation of independent, modern identities in the individual countries of the region. Modernization was linked both to the foundations of an independent political entity and to the economic reforms and to changes in the field of culture. The specificity of the region, however, was that modernity, though built up in dialogue with leading centers in Western Europe and the United States, had its specifi c character stemming from the dominant cultural model as well as the economic and social realities. Instead of taking on the ready-made models of modernity, the original concepts of modernization reforms had been worked out, based on both democratic nationalism and the attempt to reconcile modernity with traditional values. Visual arts, architecture and design have occupied a prominent place in the "new society", shaping public and private space, educating the "new man" and providing him with "modern life" patterns. The interwar modernizations in Central and Eastern Europe have shown how diff erent mechanisms of the modern epoch can be used to shape the new, unknown reality. It was another "golden age" of the European history, when hopes for a new world were built on the basis of technological progress and new cultural patterns. During the interwar period, there was intense debate about the role of culture in the process of modernization, and artists and architects have been given unknown opportunities to create experimental works, believing that their activity will shape the new reality and new man in the conditions of acquired or regained freedom.
keywords in english:	architecture and art of modernism, interwar modernization, history of Central and Eastern Europe
number of pulisher's sheets:	0.5
affiliation:	Wydział Historyczny : Instytut Historii Sztuki
type:	journal article
subtype:	academic paper