Persistent Illusions

dc.alternateIdentifier9781501782312
dc.alternateIdentifier9781501782329
dc.alternateIdentifier10.7298/5ytv-ge84
dc.creatorVeszprémi, Nóra
dc.date2026-02-19T08:14:43Z
dc.date2026-02-19T08:14:43Z
dc.date2025
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-25T14:43:53Z
dc.descriptionPersistent Illusions examines the visual representation of history in interwar Hungary, where interpretations of the past were suffused with references to the country's recent territorial loss. In these images of history, nineteenth-century themes and motifs took on new forms to promote twentieth-century political ideas through the new media of modernity. Nóra Veszprémi illustrates how modernization created resilient imagery that persists in cultural memory through a wide range of paintings, prints, stamps, public spectacles, and monuments. In doing so, she challenges the assumption that the official culture of the right-wing, authoritarian regime of Admiral Miklós Horthy was characterized by a superficial revival of historical styles. Instead, she argues that the regime drew on history in complex, modern ways that disseminated motifs and ideological frameworks across political divides. By analyzing how ideology shapes enduring concepts of the past through the evocative power of images, Persistent Illusions encourages the reader to critically examine the legacies of interwar ideas and imagery in the present day.
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dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/110023
dc.identifierhttp://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501782299/persistent-illusions
dc.identifierhttp://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501782299/persistent-illusions
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/28016
dc.identifierdoi10.7298/5ytv-ge84
dc.imprintCornell University Press
dc.languageeng
dc.licenseConditionAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.licenseConditionAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.pages300
dc.placepublicationIthaca
dc.publisherCornell University Press
dc.publisherCornell University Press
dc.relationisPublishedBy06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407
dc.relationisbn9781501782312
dc.relationisbn9781501782329
dc.resourceTypebook
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source9781501782329.pdf
dc.source9781501782312.epub
dc.subjectNationhood
dc.subjectNational territory
dc.subjectPolitical extremism
dc.subjectHorthy regime
dc.subjectUkraine invasion
dc.subjectHistory narratives
dc.subjectTwentieth-century art
dc.subjectHungarian artwork
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art
dc.titlePersistent Illusions

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