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Introduction. A Few Opening Historiographical Remarks

FOLETTI, Ivan, Ondřej JAKUBEC and Radka NOKKALA MILTOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Introduction. A Few Opening Historiographical Remarks

Authors

Edition

Řím, Central Europe as a Meeting Point of Visual Cultures Circulation of Persons, Artifacts, and Ideas, p. 7-15, 9 pp. Studia Artium Medieavalium Brunensia 11, 2021

Publisher

Viella

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

60401 Arts, Art history

Country of publisher

Italy

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-88-3313-937-1

Keywords in English

Vienna School of Art History; Max Dvořák; Jiří Kroupa; Central Europe; Nationalism; From National to Transcultural
Změněno: 22/4/2022 11:27, prof. Mgr. Ondřej Jakubec, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

Between 1900 and the inter-war period, we observe a radical shift in the perception of Central European art: the First World War catalyzed a new understanding of “cultural” heritage largely in national terms (i.e. “national heritage”). Paradoxically, such a tendency grew even stronger after the Second World War. The Nazi genocide, followed by the expulsion of German and other minorities from Central European countries, transformed modern society from the ground up. After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, scholars sought to put forward an updated, “transcultural” perspective on the space of Mitteleuropa. Jiří Kroupa was certainly one of the leading figures in this process, since his scholarship systematically connected Moravia with France, Italy, Germany, Austria, and beyond. As an intellectual heir of Viennese scholars such as Max Dvořák, he constructed a non-nationalistic perspective on Central European art, combining local approaches with a truly global erudition.