Byzantium or Democracy? Kondakov’s Legacy in Emigration: the
Institutum Kondakovianum and André Grabar, 1925–1952

B 2020

Byzantium or Democracy? Kondakov’s Legacy in Emigration: the Institutum Kondakovianum and André Grabar, 1925–1952

FOLETTI, Ivan and Adrien PALLADINO

Basic information

Original name

Byzantium or Democracy? Kondakov’s Legacy in Emigration: the Institutum Kondakovianum and André Grabar, 1925–1952

Name in Czech

Byzanc nebo demokracie? Dědictví Kondakova v emigraci: Institutum Kondakovianum a André Grabar, 1925–1952

Authors

FOLETTI, Ivan and Adrien PALLADINO

Edition

1. vyd. Brno-Rome, 211 pp. Parva Convivia 8, 2020

Publisher

Masarykova univerzita, Viella

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Odborná kniha

Field of Study

60400 6.4 Arts

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

ISBN

978-80-210-9637-0

Keywords (in Czech)

ruská emigrace, byzantská studia, dějiny umění, historiografie dějin umění, Československo, Francie, Rusko

Keywords in English

Russian emigration; Byzantine Studies; Art History; History of Art History; Czechoslovakia; France; Russian cultural production; Interwar period; Russian revolution; totalitarian regimes

Abstract

ORIG CZ

V originále

The notion of “Byzantium” has for centuries been associated with autocracy, totalitarianism, and suppression of freedom. It thus became the favored model for the Russian autocracy. In the nineteenth-century, Russian scholars working under Tsarist regimes were, either explicitly or tacitly, condoning and even supporting the ruling autocracy. After the Revolution of 1917, however, many of these effectively complicit intellectuals left Russia for Western democracies. This book shows how this experience affected the lives of intellectuals who fled and transformed their scholarship. Archival materials and writings from the time reveal how scholarship can move from aspiration to reality, as it did for the Russian émigrés until the crash of 1929 and the rise of Nazism in Germany. But how is this relevant today? Because it shows how scholarship and science must be understood as part of history, and because it illustrates the power of hope. As studied and presented by émigrés from Tsarist totalitarianism, “Byzantium” came to be a multinational screen onto which scholars projected not only frustrations but also dreams.

In Czech

Pojem „Byzanc“ byl po staletí spojován s autokracií, totalitarismem a potlačováním svobody, a stal se tak oblíbeným přirovnáním k ruské autokracii. V devatenáctém století ruští badatelé explicitně či implicitně schvalovali, či dokonce podporovali samoděržaví. Po revoluci roku 1917 však většina z nich opustila Rusko a usadila se v západních demokratických zemích. Kniha ukazuje, jak zkušenost exilu změnila životy uprchnuvších intelektuálů a proměnila jejich bádání i jejich pohled na Byzanc.

Links

GA18-20666S, research and development project

Name: Kondakovovo dědictví, Byzance a emigrace (André Grabar a Seminarium Kondakovianum) (Acronym: HNK)

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

FOLETTI, Ivan and Adrien PALLADINO. Byzantium or Democracy? Kondakov’s Legacy in Emigration: the Institutum Kondakovianum and André Grabar, 1925–1952. 1st ed. Brno-Rome: Masarykova univerzita, Viella, 2020, 211 pp. Parva Convivia 8. ISBN 978-80-210-9637-0.

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FOLETTI, Ivan and Adrien PALLADINO. \textit{Byzantium or Democracy? Kondakov’s Legacy in Emigration: the Institutum Kondakovianum and André Grabar, 1925–1952}. 1st ed. Brno-Rome: Masarykova univerzita, Viella, 2020, 211 pp. Parva Convivia 8. ISBN~978-80-210-9637-0.

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