The Art of Identity and Memory: Toward a Cultural History of the Two World Wars in Lithuania

About

Giedr Jankeviit is a senior researcher at the Art History and Visual Culture Department of the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute and teaches at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Her current field of interest lies in artistic culture of occupied countries. Her monographs include Valstyb ir dail: dails gyvenimas Lietuvos Respublikoje 19181940 (Art and State: Art and Artistic Life in the Lithuanian Republic 19181940 2003) and The Graphic Arts in Lithuania 19181940 (2008). She has edited the catalogues Under the Red Star: Lithuanian Art in 19401941 (2011) and The Realities of Occupation: Posters in Lithuania during World War I and World War II (2014 with Laima Laukait). She organized the international conference Art and Artistic Life during Two World Wars (Vilnius 2011 with Laima Laukait) and edited a collection of articles with the same title prepared on the basis of the presentations read at the conference (2012 with Laima Laukait). Currently she is writing a monograph on Lithuanian art and artistic culture from 1939 to 1944 and compiling a book on the art historian Mikalojus Vorobjovas (Nikolai Worobiow 190354) who was active in Lithuania in the mid-twentieth century.