The history of the Memory of the Roma Genocide Memorial erected in the forest in the village of Borzecin (Malopolska Region). The piece outlines the idea of the monument’s author – a concept that evolves as the monument is affected by the passage of time and events occurring in it’s surrounding. The history of the Memory of the Roma Genocide Memorial erected in the forest in the village of Borzecin (Malopolska Region). The piece outlines the idea of the monument’s author – a concept that evolves as the monument is affected by the passage of time and events occurring in it’s surrounding.
The author presents the evolution of the attitude towards the art of Roma artists, who in the past were often perceived as representatives of a folk art, and who are now professional artists whose work often does not have any connection with the ethnicity of their authors. The author critically analyses the concept of authenticity in art by pointing out the presence of diverse aesthetic traditions in the works of Roma artists and concludes that the ethnicity of an artist is unimportant and the contemporary generation of Roma artists has escaped the stigma of an ethnic art.
Looking at the character, significance and the esthetics of the “sacred corner” – a phenomenon of the Polish folk culture, longest present particularly in the Eastern and North-Eastern Poland, the author analyses contemporary decorations made in the Roma houses of the Carpathian Mountains as well as those of the Roma middleclass of various groups. The article aims at opening a discussion about the sources of the „Gypsy style” and invites the question of whether the Roma esthetics is a combination of elements borrowed from the poor strata of the majority group and frozen in the material culture of the Roma, while the majority ceased to employ these elements or rather a new space where new, specifically Roma things are being created.
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