SOCIÁLNA ŠTRUKTÚRA BRATISLAVSKEJ UMELECKEJ BOHÉMY V ROKOCH 1920 – 1945

The study provides an analysis of the authentic modernist cultural and social phenomenon of Bratislava‘s artistic bohemian in the years 1920– 1945 in terms of its social structure. This group consisted of writers and painters, in what amounted to a special social microcosm, in the midst of which a particular social structure spontaneously formed, consisting of a leading integrating personality encircled by a wider group of acquaintances, patrons, female muses, devotees and fans stemming from bourgeois circles. An important issue in the context of the social structure of Bratislava‘s artistic bohemian is the antagonism between bohemian artists, who possessed cultural capital, and the bourgeoisie, who possessed economic capital.