The invention and uses of folk art in Germany: wooden toys from the Erzgebirge mountains |
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Authors: | Manuel Schramm |
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Affiliation: | 1. manuel.schramm@mailbox.tu‐dresden.de |
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Abstract: | This article attempts to historicise the concept of “folk art” using the example of wooden toys from the Erzgebirge mountains to show that it was invented by cultural élites as a marketing concept at the beginning of the twentieth century in order to support a domestic industy caught in structural crisis. |
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