Item Summary

The series of illustrations entitled Collages brings together fragments of everyday craft traditions, representing the textile art of twentieth-century Belarus, with a collection of black-and-white archival photographs from the Second World War. Photography at the time was subject to wartime censorship, indeed, like all forms of information, not only those directly related to military operations but also those depicting daily life. As a result, Soviet wartime photography preserved only the “ceremonial” face of the past, leaving no space for the ideologically inconvenient aspects of the war and its aftermath.

In contrast, popular memory found expression in vibrant handwoven carpets and embroidered towels created by ordinary people, individuals who themselves were participants in the wartime experience. Enduring hunger and loss, they nevertheless responded to upheaval by surrounding themselves with beauty, as though seeking to shield memory from traumatic recollections.

Descriptive Information

Title
Collages - 1-32
Sort Title
collages - 1-32
Creator of work
Liankevich, Andrei
Language
Belarusian
English
Date Created
2013
Format
Photographs
Series
Goodbye, Motherland
Rights Statement
In Copyright

Discovery Information

Subject
Arts and culture
Photography
History
Local history
Politics and government
Armed Forces - armed forces
World War, 1939-1945
Geographic Subject
Belarus
Geographic Origin
Belarus

Physical Characteristics

Height
20
Width
30
Page Count
32
File Count
32

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton Slavic Collections
Box number
Digital box #1
Folder number
229-260
Barcode
00000000000000
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/ephemera_folders/4a501028-3cb6-4f1d-93b1-dded79123d47/manifest