1st Edition

Periodization in the Art Historiographies of Central and Eastern Europe

290 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume critically investigates how art historians writing about Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries engaged with periodization. At the heart of much of their writing lay the ideological project of nation-building. Hence discourses around periodization – such as the mythicizing of certain periods, the invention of historical continuity and the... Read more

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

Introduction

The Editors

1. Linear, Entangled, Anachronic: Periodization and the Shapes of Time in Art History

Matthew Rampley

PART 2: WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BYZANTINE

2. Renaissances in Byzantium and Byzantium in the Renaissance: the International Development of Ideas and Terminology in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Europe

Anna Adashinskaya

3. From Byzantine to Brâncovenesc: The Periodization of Romanian Art in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

Cosmin Minea

4. Regional Variations of the Byzantine Style. Canonization/Nationalization of Art and Architecture in South-Eastern Europe

Timo Hagen

5. Bulgarian versus Byzantine: The Unrealized Museum of the Bulgarian Revival and National Style Debates in Architecture ca. 1900

Ada Hajdu

PART 3: OUR ART IS IN TEXTBOOKS

6. Sztuka. Zarys jej dziejów (Art. A Survey of its History, 1872): The Disciplinary and Political Context of Józef Łepkowski’s Survey of Art History

Magdalena Kunińska

7. German Medievalism and Estonian Contemporaneity: Centre, Periphery and Periodization in the Histories of Baltic and Estonian Art, 1880s–1930s

Kristina Jõekalda

8. Periodization of Architecture in Croatian Art History: The Case of the ‘Renaissance’ and ‘Transitional’ Styles

Dubravka Botica

PART 4: TRADITION WAS INVENTED BY MODERNITY

9. The European and the National in Imperial Historiography and Periodization of the Russian School of Painting

Andrey Shabanov

10. Magmatic Foundations: The Emergence and Crystallization of Early Ideas of Periodization in Polish Painting in the Nineteenth Century

Natalia Koziara-Ocęduszko

11. Problematizing Periodization: Folk Art, National Narratives and Cultural Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Romanian Art History

Shona Kallestrup

12. Beyond the Provincial: Entanglements of Regional Modernism in Interwar Central Europe

Julia Secklehner

PART 5: TURNING POINTS

13. Disaster and Renewal, 1241–42: The Transition from Romanesque to Gothic in the Historiography of Medieval Art in the Kingdom of Hungary

Mihnea Alexandru Mihail

14. Modernism Versus Modernism: Socialist Realism and Its Discontents in Romania

Irina Cărăbaș

Biography

Shona Kallestrup is Associate Lecturer in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews. She was formerly Senior Researcher at New Europe College, Bucharest.

Magdalena Kunińska is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Art History at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She was formerly Senior Researcher at New Europe College, Bucharest.

Mihnea Alexandru Mihail is Assistant Professor at the National University of Arts, Bucharest, and a research fellow at New Europe College, Bucharest.

Anna Adashinskaya is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Laboratory for Medieval Studies of the Higher School of Economics, Moscow. She was formerly a postdoctoral fellow at New Europe College, Bucharest.

Cosmin Minea is a postdoctoral researcher for the Chair of the History and Theory of Architecture Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke at ETH Zürich. He was formerly a postdoctoral fellow at New Europe College, Bucharest.