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Journal of Design History 2002 15(3):147-162; doi:10.1093/jdh/15.3.147
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Romanian ‘National Style’ and the 1906 Bucharest Jubilee Exhibition

Shona Kallestrup

University of Aberdeen


  Abstract

This article examines the role of the 1906 Bucharest Jubilee Exhibition in the development of a Romanian ‘identity’ in visual art at the turn of the century. It argues that this event marked a pivotal point in official recognition of the need for a ‘national style’. Yet the nature of this style is complex. Evolving within an independent kingdom, it eludes models of ‘ethnic nationalism’, as a peripheral reaction to imperial ‘centres’, which have been convincingly applied to neo-national styles in Poland, Hungary and Finland, among others. Instead, vemacular revivalism played a subsidiary role to the expression of Latin identity on the one hand and the celebration of Orthodox forms on the other. It is this duality, its sources, manifestation and manipulation that shaped the form of the 1906 Exhibition and had a lasting impact on notions of a ‘Romanian’ style in the early twentieth century.

Key Words: architecture • Bucharest • cultural nationalism • exhibitions • identity • neo-Romanian style


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