Periodization in the Art Historiographies of Central and Eastern Europe

NY : Routledge, 2022.

Adashinskaya A.

Academic editor: Adashinskaya A., S. Kallestrup, M. Kunińska,, M. A. Mihail, C. Minea

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. These discourses around periodization – such as the mythicizing of certain periods, the invention of historical continuity and the assertion of national specificity – contributed strongly to identity construction.Central to the book’s approach is a transnational exploration of how the art histories of the region not only interacted with established Western periodizations, but also resonated and ‘entangled’ with each other. In their efforts to develop more sympathetic frameworks that refined, ignored or hybridized Western models, they sought to overcome the centre-periphery paradigm which equated distance from the centre with temporal belatedness and artistic backwardness. The book thus demonstrates that the concept of periodization is far from neutral or strictly descriptive, and that its use in art history needs to be reconsidered.

Bringing together a broad range of scholars from different European institutions, the volume offers a unique new perspective on Central and Eastern European art historiography. It will be of interest to scholars working in art history, historiography, and European studies.

Chapters

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

Adashinskaya A., , in: Periodization in the Art Historiographies of Central and Eastern Europe.: NY: Routledge, 2022.

Traditional twentieth-century histories and art historical narratives point to a series of revivals in Byzantine art and literature in the ninth, twelfth and fourteenth centuries, thus representing Byzantine culture as a constant sequence of deaths and rebirths motivated by its internal ‘Classical’ component. Additionally, Byzantine art is often discussed as a source of Classical motifs ...

Added: May 9, 2022

Keywords: периодизация, Periodizations, Art Historiography, Art of Central Europe, Art of Eastern Europe, историография искусства, искусство Центральной Европы, Искусство Восточной Европы