Medieval Art in Georgia through the Soviet Lens: from
Colonialist Marginalization to Nationalist Acclamation

p 2023

Medieval Art in Georgia through the Soviet Lens: from Colonialist Marginalization to Nationalist Acclamation

FILIPOVÁ, Alžběta

Basic information

Original name

Medieval Art in Georgia through the Soviet Lens: from Colonialist Marginalization to Nationalist Acclamation

Authors

FILIPOVÁ, Alžběta

Edition

Research Seminar Series: “Shifting Images and Ideas of Europe’s East: An Art Historical Approach from the Margins”, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institut for Kunstgeschichte, 2023

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Vyžádané přednášky

Field of Study

60401 Arts, Art history

Country of publisher

Italy

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Medieval Georgia; Historiography of Art History; South Caucasus; Giorgi Chubinashvili; Great Soviet Encyclopedia

Abstract

V originále

Arising from a cultural crossroads between Europe and Asia and characteristic by profound cultural syncretism, the art and architecture of medieval Georgia has been put on the side-lines of the Eurocentric art historical canon. The marginalization is due in large part to historiographic factors stemming from the past two hundred years of Russian domination of South Caucasus. This lecture investigates the progressive historiographic construction of two main (and sometimes contradictory) perspectives that have shaped the limited understanding that art historians worldwide have of Georgian medieval art. Firstly, we will briefly expose the dominant Russian narrative making the art of South Caucasus the product of a geographically and culturally peripheral zone of assimilation and imitation of Byzantium. This evidently reflected the marginal political position of Georgia within the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. Secondly, we will focus on the establishment of art history as scientific discipline in the 1920’s in Georgia, on its methodological and ideological frameworks, as well as on its fundamental role in the process of formation of ethnic and national identity.

Links

101026166, interní kód MU

Name: Demarginalizing Medieval Georgia: History of Art History between Colonial Perspective and Nationalist Appropriation (1921–1991)

Investor: European Union, MSCA Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (Excellent Science)

Citovat

FILIPOVÁ, Alžběta. Medieval Art in Georgia through the Soviet Lens: from Colonialist Marginalization to Nationalist Acclamation. In Research Seminar Series: “Shifting Images and Ideas of Europe’s East: An Art Historical Approach from the Margins”, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institut for Kunstgeschichte. 2023.

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FILIPOVÁ, Alžběta. Medieval Art in Georgia through the Soviet Lens: from Colonialist Marginalization to Nationalist Acclamation. In \textit{Research Seminar Series: “Shifting Images and Ideas of Europe’s East: An Art Historical Approach from the Margins”, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institut for Kunstgeschichte}. 2023.

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