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Dve domovini / Two Homelands
The United States of America in the eyes of Slovene painter Božidar Jakac (1929- 1931)
Author(s):Marjan Drnovšek
Co-author(s):Marjan Drnovšek (ur.), Cveta Puncer (prev.), Mija Mravlja (lekt.)
Leto:2006
Publisher(s):Inštitut za slovensko izseljenstvo in migracije ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana
Source(s):Dve domovini, 2006, št. 23
Language(s):slovenščina
Type(s) of material:text
Keywords:zgodovina, Združene države Amerike, pisemski potopis, ekonomska kriza, history, USA, epistolary travelogue, cultural contacts, economic crises
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This work by Marjan Drnovšek is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International
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The painter Božidar Jakac travelled through the United States of America from April 1929 to the Summer of 1931. He described it to his family in numerous letters, which Miran Jarc has prepared for a book form (Božidar Jakac, Odmevi Rdeče zemlje [Echoes of the Red Soil], Adaptation of letters from America by Miran Jarc, 1932). What America meant to Jakac and what it gave him, the way he presented it in his letters and in the book, in documentary films, and partly in paintings, is the theme of the present reflection. Jakac wavered between enthusiasm and despondency about America and at the same time wrote, “In America I have become aware of my own countenance stronger than I could have elsewhere. There I realized where my path was”. Jakac’s experience will be included in the context of the image of America in the time when the great economic crisis seized it and the world.
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- identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/11686/26952
- title
- Združene države Amerike v očeh slovenskega slikarja Božidarja Jakca (1929-1931)
- The United States of America in the eyes of Slovene painter Božidar Jakac (1929- 1931)
- creator
- Marjan Drnovšek
- contributor
- Marjan Drnovšek (ur.)
- Cveta Puncer (prev.)
- Mija Mravlja (lekt.)
- subject
- zgodovina
- Združene države Amerike
- pisemski potopis
- ekonomska kriza
- history
- USA
- epistolary travelogue
- cultural contacts
- economic crises
- description
- Slikar Božidar Jakac je potoval po Združenih državah Amerike od aprila 1929 do poletja 1931. Domačim jo je predstavljal v številnih pismih, ki jih je za knjižno obliko priredil Miran Jarc (Božidar Jakac, Odmevi Rdeče zemlje. Po pismih iz Amerike priredil Miran Jarc, 1932). Kaj mu je pomenila in dala Amerika, kako jo je predstavljal v pismih oziroma knjigi, dokumentarnih filmih in deloma na slikah je tema tega razmišljanja. Nihal je med navdušenjem in malodušjem nad Ameriko, hkrati pa zapisal: »V Ameriki sem spoznal lasten obraz in to močneje, kot bi ga mogel kje drugje. Tam sem spoznal, kjer je moja pot.« Jakčeva izkušnja bo vpeta v kontekst podobe Amerike v času, ko je njo in svet zajela velika gospodarska kriza.
- The painter Božidar Jakac travelled through the United States of America from April 1929 to the Summer of 1931. He described it to his family in numerous letters, which Miran Jarc has prepared for a book form (Božidar Jakac, Odmevi Rdeče zemlje [Echoes of the Red Soil], Adaptation of letters from America by Miran Jarc, 1932). What America meant to Jakac and what it gave him, the way he presented it in his letters and in the book, in documentary films, and partly in paintings, is the theme of the present reflection. Jakac wavered between enthusiasm and despondency about America and at the same time wrote, “In America I have become aware of my own countenance stronger than I could have elsewhere. There I realized where my path was”. Jakac’s experience will be included in the context of the image of America in the time when the great economic crisis seized it and the world.
- publisher
- Inštitut za slovensko izseljenstvo in migracije ZRC SAZU
- date
- 2006
- type
- besedilo
- language
- Slovenščina
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- rights
- license: ccByNcNd