Description
The texts published in this book are the result of three-year project Parisian art scene and Croatian Modern Art, conducted from the beginning of 2013 to the end of 2015, with the support of the Croatian Ministry of Culture. Contributions to this book are mostly based on the papers given at the three international conferences held in the framework of the project, supplemented by the essays of a few invited authors whose insight in the topic of this publication gave a significant contribution to the complexity of the problem in the center of its interest.Divided in two groups - on the studies that are explaining the relationship between French artistic culture and Central- East European local art scenes in the inter-war period, and studies following their cultural encounters after the World War II, in a period of a considerably different and more complex political circumstances - the book French Artistic Culture and Central-East European Modern art, is also perceived as a contribution to the ongoing debates on the center - periphery relation, approached from a rather different perspectives, and with a results that do not provide any definite answers, but rather emphasize the complexity of that issue.
