Wesołego alleluja, Polsko Ludowa!

• Authors: Antoni Kroh

Title variants

EN

HAPPY HALLELUIACH, PEOPLS POLAND

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Socialist realism was proclaimed in 1949 as the binding and sole correct programme intended for all domains of culture, and although several years later it ceased being officially in force, it never died. Ridiculed, it was recalled as resolutely as it had been previously announced. The post-1970s inaugurated a strange time for folk art. In the wake of the Gomułka-era drabness, which ended with the bloody events along the Baltic littoral, the authorities were compelled to offer the people something in return: Coca-cola, the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Fiat family car, prefabricated housing estates, an opportunity to travel to the West. Supporting folk art fitted the reconstruction of society performed in a new spirit, and thus assumed the rank of a state issue and part of the cultural policy.

Keywords

EN

Anthropology and history; People’s Republic of Poland

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 65
• Issue: 1(292)
• Pages: 112-117

Contributors

author

Antoni Kroh