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oapen-20.500.12657-882432024-03-28T14:02:51Z Art Historiography and Iconologies Between West and East Bałus, Wojciech Kunińska, Magdalena art history,iconology,center,centre,periphery,Poland,methodology,politics,Warburg Institute,communism,Europe,Marxism,Soviet Union,Soviet bloc,social realism,Estonia,Czechoslovakia,German Democratic Republic,Germany,Romania,Western Europe,Eastern Europe,art historian,intellectual history,oppression,Central Europe,architecture,Godefridus Johannes Hoogewerff,Ernst H. Kantorowicz,Hans Sedlmayr,Jan Białostocki,Zofia Ameisenowa,Lech Kalinowski,Erwin Panofsky,Mikhail Liebmann,Mikhail Sokolov,Prague,Helga Sciurie,Jena,Friedrich Mobius thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art 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 Hoogewerff and Hans Sedlmayr. Researchers affiliated with the Warburg Institute in London also chose to distance themselves from Panofsky’s work. Poland, in turn, was the breeding ground for yet another distinct variety of iconology. In Communist Czechoslovakia there were attempts to develop a ‘Marxist iconology’. This book, written by recognized experts in the field, examines these and other major strands of iconology, telling the tale of iconology’s reception in the countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain. Attitudes there ranged from enthusiastic acceptance in Poland, to critical reception in the Soviet Union, to reinterpretation in Czechoslovakia and the German Democratic Republic, and, finally, to outright rejection in Romania. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, and historiography. 2024-03-07T14:30:05Z 2024-03-07T14:30:05Z 2024 book 9780367684341 9780367684358 9781003137528 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88243 eng Studies in Art Historiography Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003137528 10.4324/9781003137528 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb d6aa0289-5039-4825-827d-69d416fa4a48 9780367684341 9780367684358 9781003137528 Routledge open access
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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 Hoogewerff and Hans Sedlmayr. Researchers affiliated with the Warburg Institute in London also chose to distance themselves from Panofsky’s work. Poland, in turn, was the breeding ground for yet another distinct variety of iconology. In Communist Czechoslovakia there were attempts to develop a ‘Marxist iconology’. This book, written by recognized experts in the field, examines these and other major strands of iconology, telling the tale of iconology’s reception in the countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain. Attitudes there ranged from enthusiastic acceptance in Poland, to critical reception in the Soviet Union, to reinterpretation in Czechoslovakia and the German Democratic Republic, and, finally, to outright rejection in Romania.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, and historiography.
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