p 2021

Inventing Medieval Caucasus: Between Colonialism and Orientalism

FOLETTI, Ivan

Basic information

Original name

Inventing Medieval Caucasus: Between Colonialism and Orientalism

Authors

Edition

Revealing Christian Heritage. Talks on the rediscovery of Christian archaeology between 1860 and 1930, 2021

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Vyžádané přednášky

Field of Study

60401 Arts, Art history

Country of publisher

Spain

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Southern Caucasus; Colonial Russian Perpective; Western Orientalism; Medieval Art; Hugo; Gagarin; Brosset; Bakradze; Kondakov; Marr; Strzygowski

Abstract

V originále

This paper wishes to present and analyse a series of historiographical layers defining our understanding of the medieval cultures of the Caucasian and Sub-Caucasian regions. They have had, indeed, a complex and contested history throughout the period of modern art history’s existence. Its historical situation has furthermore led to multiple colonial interests. In the 19th century – the period this paper will focus on – the region was divided between the Russian Empire and its Ottoman counterpart. Furthermore, Eastern Anatolia was from 1915 to 1921 the setting of an event that is considered generally as a genocide. During the whole of this period the “western” historiography was presenting the region as a provincial, peripheric and still very charming space, corresponding to all the orientalist stereotypes. The core question of this paper will thus be how this political environment impacted the construction of the art historical narrative.

Links

GF21-01706L, research and development project
Name: Kulturní dialogy v Jihokavkazském regionu ve středověku: historiografická a historicko-umělecká perspektiva (Acronym: CIMS)
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Partner Agency (Switzerland)