On the Institutional Development of Folk Art Production in Czechoslovakia after 1945

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7160/KS.2019.120101
Author: Jiří Hlaváček
Address: Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, v. v. i., Vlašská 355/9, 118 00 Praha
E-mail: hlavacek@usd.cas.cz
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8843-8183
Language: Czech
Issue: 1/2019
Page Range: 3-20
No. of Pages: 18
Keywords: folk; art, production; Czechoslovakia; communism; etnography; institution.
Summary/Abstract: The study focuses on the phenomenon of institutionalization of folk art production
in Czechoslovakia after 1945. The main attention is paid to the public corporation called the
Center of Folk Art Production, which was established on the basis of the President’s decree
immediately after the end of World War II. This center existed after 1948, and for the next few
decades it has become a means of development, cultivation, as well as basic research. folk
production and crafts during the communist regime. The text focuses mainly on the main trends
in the field of folk production and also on the question of linking the professional and artistic
components of the state organization with commercial aspirations (shops Krásna jizba). When
compiling a chronological review of this institution, the author combines data from the literature
published after 1989 with period information from articles published before 1989 in the
magazine Umění a řemesla.

Celý příspěvek / Full Text Paper: K institucionálnímu vývoji lidové umělecké výroby v Československu po roce 1945