The Ideas of modern Catholicism and Lithuanian art criticism in the 1930s

ENThis article analyses the diffusion of the ideology of modern Catholicism and its effect on aesthetics and art criticism in Lithuania in the 1930s. The young generation of Lithuanian Catholic aestheticians proclaimed that art was not only intended to serve as an image of a dehumanised civilisation but also as an effort to prevail over its negative impact. They adapted the New Humanism ideology of French modern Catholicism as a programmatic guideline for contemporary art. The article reveals that although the theoretical art conceptions of the young generation of Lithuanian Catholic art critics were similar, their interpretations of Lithuanian art were rather different.