The Paradigm of Style focuses on the notion of national tradition and on the idea of national identity perceived as intellectual constructs, which in Europe of the 1930s were supposed to serve non-artistic purposes – ideologization of aesthetics and political propaganda. The issue of an idiosyncratic national style that was freed from foreign influences and stigma, and expressed specific racial features and a ‘tribal temperament’ was also an important element of the critical and theoretical discourse of the period. The article refers to the diversified employment of these conceptual categories while analyzing the reception of the exhibition of French sculpture organized in 1935 under the auspices of the French government at the Institute of...