THE AESTETICS OF DWELLINGS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF A VILLAGE IN CROATIA)

U studiji se iznosi ishod istraživanja o ukrašavanju stambenih prostorija kakvo je uobičajeno u selu Sošice. U prvom su dijelu studije formulirane teorijske pretpostavke o stambenoj estetici kao o predmetu etnološkoga zanimanja. Nasuprot uporabnim predmetima u stanu, koji su zajednički, smatra se da izborom ukrasnih predmeta stanar iskazuje svoju individualnost. Putem njih on će se na određeni način integrirati u svoju socijalnu grupu i odrediti svoj status, identificirati s herojima ili idolima svoga vremena, iskazati svoj odnos spram obitelji, spram užeg zavičaja ili domovine, spram reiigije. Stoga se u izboru ukrasnih predmeta u stanu ne očituje samo individualni osjećaj stanara za lijepo već se u njemu može prepoznati i njegov nazor na svijet i život.The article presents the author\u27s research into dwelling decoration as practiced in the village of Sošice. The theoretical assumptions for the aesthetics of dwellings are formulated in the first part of the article as a subject of ethnological research. The second part consists of concise information on the period and form of research; on the natural features and historical processes that have taken place in Sošice, a small town in an economically poorly developed part of Croatia; on the basic features of the architectural environment and the most significant dwelling processes that have occurred within it over the last eighty years. The decoration of dwellings observable in the given period, from 1981 to 1985, in houses that are still occupied, is described in the third part. Research has registered several decoration styles, which correspond to the general social and cultural conditions and village residential standards characteristic for the early 20th century, the period between the two world wars, and the post-war period