The COURAGE Registry: A Gateway to the Cultural Heritage of Eastern European Nonconformism

The COURAGE Registry is a digital research tool that allows exploring the legacy of cultural opposition in former Eastern European socialist countries by cataloging and describing relevant collections on dissident culture across Eastern Europe and worldwide. The linked database reveals a great varie...

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Autores principales:	Heléna HUHÁK, Lóránt BÓDI
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Publicado:	National Museum of the Romanian Peasant 2021
Materias:	cultural opposition underground culture database digital collection eastern europe secret police grey zone Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology GN301-674
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/5cb4e7bb9c4c4a5885940ae2c285bf63
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5cb4e7bb9c4c4a5885940ae2c285bf632021-11-22T13:49:51ZThe COURAGE Registry: A Gateway to the Cultural Heritage of Eastern European Nonconformism1224-62712734-8350https://doaj.org/article/5cb4e7bb9c4c4a5885940ae2c285bf632021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://martor.muzeultaranuluiroman.ro/archive/martor-26-2021/2021_09/https://doaj.org/toc/1224-6271https://doaj.org/toc/2734-8350The COURAGE Registry is a digital research tool that allows exploring the legacy of cultural opposition in former Eastern European socialist countries by cataloging and describing relevant collections on dissident culture across Eastern Europe and worldwide. The linked database reveals a great variety of nonconformist cultural practices that were formerly largely unknown and promotes comparative research of similar phenomena in Eastern European societies and cultures. The researchers on the project tended to treat visual sources as traces of the past equally as important as written documents. Images were not only illustrations of the given narratives but, in some cases, visual documents were the only sources that preserved the memory of the alternative or underground activity, while in other cases, it was the act of taking pictures that resulted in the confrontation with official cultural policy. This article aims to provide insight into the basic dilemmas and issues that the project faced dealing with images for the database through three examples. Firstly, we focus on the photo documentation of an exhibition of the Hungarian art group Inconnu that was made by the secret police following the destruction of the artworks. Secondly, we show how photos were also taken by official photographers who operated in the so-called “grey zone.” Finally, our third example refers to Fortepan, a unique public initiative that focuses on the digital preservation of private photographs created between 1900 and 1990. Heléna HUHÁK Lóránt BÓDI National Museum of the Romanian Peasantarticlecultural oppositionunderground culture databasedigital collectioneastern europesecret policegrey zoneEthnology. Social and cultural anthropologyGN301-674ENFRMartor, Vol 26, Pp 138-146 (2021)
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description	The COURAGE Registry is a digital research tool that allows exploring the legacy of cultural opposition in former Eastern European socialist countries by cataloging and describing relevant collections on dissident culture across Eastern Europe and worldwide. The linked database reveals a great variety of nonconformist cultural practices that were formerly largely unknown and promotes comparative research of similar phenomena in Eastern European societies and cultures. The researchers on the project tended to treat visual sources as traces of the past equally as important as written documents. Images were not only illustrations of the given narratives but, in some cases, visual documents were the only sources that preserved the memory of the alternative or underground activity, while in other cases, it was the act of taking pictures that resulted in the confrontation with official cultural policy. This article aims to provide insight into the basic dilemmas and issues that the project faced dealing with images for the database through three examples. Firstly, we focus on the photo documentation of an exhibition of the Hungarian art group Inconnu that was made by the secret police following the destruction of the artworks. Secondly, we show how photos were also taken by official photographers who operated in the so-called “grey zone.” Finally, our third example refers to Fortepan, a unique public initiative that focuses on the digital preservation of private photographs created between 1900 and 1990.
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title	The COURAGE Registry: A Gateway to the Cultural Heritage of Eastern European Nonconformism
title_short	The COURAGE Registry: A Gateway to the Cultural Heritage of Eastern European Nonconformism
title_full	The COURAGE Registry: A Gateway to the Cultural Heritage of Eastern European Nonconformism
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The COURAGE Registry: A Gateway to the Cultural Heritage of Eastern European Nonconformism

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