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Art Historiography and Iconologies Between West and East book cover

1st Edition

Art Historiography and Iconologies Between West and East

Edited By Wojciech Bałus, Magdalena Kunińska Copyright 2024
252 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume explores a basic question in the historiography of art: the extent to which iconology was a homogenous research method in its own immutable right. By contributing to the rejection of the universalizing narrative, these case studies argue that there were many strands of iconology. Methods that differed from the ‘canonised’ approach of Panofsky were proposed by Godefridus Johannes... Read more

Part 1: Overview

1. Mapping Iconologies: Concepts and Contexts
Wojciech Bałus and Magdalena Kunińska

Part 2: Diverse Concepts of Iconology and Their Use in Western and Central Europe

2. Iconology or Iconography?: The Term Iconology in Erwin Panofsky’s Research on Art
Lech Kalinowski

3. Iconology vs. Iconography: G. J. Hoogewerff's Seminal Distinctions
Elizabeth Sears

4. The Political Iconology of Ernst H. Kantorowicz
Robert Pawlik

5. Flat Iconology: Metamorphoses of a Method in British Exile
Hans Christian Hönes

6. Imperial Style and the Content of Architecture: Concepts of Architectural Iconography of the 1930s and 1940s, and Their Afterlife
Ute Engel

7. Hans Sedlmayr’s Structural Analysis of the Gothic Cathedral: An Iconological Study?
Peter Kurmann

8. Zofia Ameisenowa, William S. Heckscher and ‘The Genesis of Iconology’ (Bonn 1964)
Magdalena Kunińska

9. Erwin Panofsky, Hans Sedlmayr, Lech Kalinowski, and the Meanders of Iconology
Wojciech Bałus

10. Jan Białostocki: From Iconology to the Aesthetics of Image
Ryszard Kasperowicz

Part 3: (Marxist) Reinterpretation of Iconology Behind the Iron Curtain

11. Iconology Versus Iconography in the Soviet Art-Historical Discourse, 1960s–1980s
Marina Dmitrieva

12. Sneaking In: Iconology and the Process of Renewal in Late Soviet Estonian Art History
Krista Kodres

13. The Prague School of Marxist Iconology
Milena Bartlová

14. Helga Sciurie, Friedrich Möbius, and the Jena Arbeitskreis für Ikonologie und Ikonographie in the German Democratic Republic
Heinrich Dilly

Part 4: Absence and Non-Acceptance of Iconology in Some Regions Behind the Iron Curtain

15. The Absence of Iconology in Romania: A Possible Answer
Ada Hajdu and Mihnea Alexandru Mihail

16. A Strange Place of ‘Style’ in Iconology: A Case Study from Southeastern Europe
Marina Vicelja-Matijasic and Nikolina Belošević

Biography

Wojciech Bałus is Professor at the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.

Magdalena Kunińska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Art History at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.

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