Baroque for a wide public: Popular media and their constructions of the epoch on both sides of the Iron Curtain

This special section of the Journal of Art Historiography aims at exploring the communication of art historical content in popular media during the Cold War era. In seizing on this subject we acknowledge the important role of popular art histories in the forming of persistent concepts of local patri...

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Published in:	Journal of Art Historiography
Main Authors:	Michaela Marek, Eva Pluhařová-Grigienė
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2016-12-01
Subjects:	cultural policies Cold War popular art history baroque art historiography Eastern Europe Central Europe
Online Access:	https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/introduction.pdf

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