Original scientific paper
Letters to Anka: a look at the intimate correspondence of Jerolim Miše
Ana Šeparović
orcid.org/0000-0002-1708-8358
; The Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography, Zagreb
Abstract
The paper presents and analyses letters that the Croatian painter Jerolim Miše wrote to his fiancée, later wife, Anka Miše, née Malešević, found in the painter’s estate and a private collection. The letters proved to be extremely important for the reconstruction of Jerolim Miše’s biography and body of work, as a credible insight into a series of interesting occurrences in the period of activity of the Spring Salon, the Independent Group of Artists and the Group of Three, but also as a wholly intimate look into the world of an artist who is extremely reflexive in terms of thinking about himself as an artist, about an artist’s place in society, but also about art itself, all in accordance with the general guidelines of the »spirit of the time«. The letters are chronologically divided into three groups (1915–19, 1922 and 1926–70) and regarded through two aspects – the intimate and the public. A gender point of view is added to that basic division.
Keywords
Jerolim Miše; Anka Miše; letters; correspondence; modernism; antimodernism; Croatian painting of the first half of the 20th century
Hrčak ID:
162979
URI
Publication date:
25.7.2016.
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