Orient oder Rom? Prehistory, history and reception of a historiographical myth (1880-1930)

0486178 - ÚDU 2018 RIV eng U - Conference, Workshop Arrangement
Lovino, Francesco - Foletti, I.
Orient oder Rom? Prehistory, history and reception of a historiographical myth (1880-1930).
[Brno, 06.02.2017-08.02.2017, (K-EUR 15/10)]
Institutional support: RVO:68378033
Keywords : art historiography * cultural identity * art history * Josef Strzygowski
OECD category: Arts, Art history
http://www.udu.cas.cz/cs/archiv-clanku/orient-oder-rom/

Today the question „Orient oder Rom?” is no longer a topical issue in medieval art history, although a persuasive answer has never been formulated. One of the reasons for this oblivion deals with the controversial figure of Josef Strzygowski, who in 1901 published about the question his pivotal volume and nowadays discredited for its racial and proto-nazi judgement. However, the question „Orient oder Rom?” concerns not only with Josef Strzygowski: the prodromes of this critical concepts goes back to the nineteenth century, when the Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires fought to control contested territories, and humanities studies mirrored these conflicts. The conference aims to distance from the sole Strzygowski’s perspective and to comprehend and rewrite the story of a pivotal concept for both art historiography and cultural identity.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0281033