From Desperate Solidarity to Dispassionate Eye : Shifting
French Perspectives on Early Medieval Armenian Art (ca
1894–1929)

C 2023

From Desperate Solidarity to Dispassionate Eye : Shifting French Perspectives on Early Medieval Armenian Art (ca 1894–1929)

PALLADINO, Adrien

Basic information

Original name

From Desperate Solidarity to Dispassionate Eye : Shifting French Perspectives on Early Medieval Armenian Art (ca 1894–1929)

Authors

PALLADINO, Adrien (250 France, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Turnhout, Re-Thinking Late Antique Armenia : Historiography, Material Culture, and Heritage, p. 96-115, 20 pp. Convivium Supplementum, 11, 2023

Publisher

Brepols

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

60401 Arts, Art history

Country of publisher

Belgium

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

Brepols web

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/23:00130906

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-80-280-0306-7

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.135378

UT WoS

001004775500006

Keywords in English

Armenian studies; France; Armenian genocide; art history; Byzantine studies; Hamidian massacres; philarmenism; philology

Abstract

V originále

In the years from the Hamidian massacres of the 1890s through the genocide, French scholars displayed a distinct ambivalence toward the artistic culture of medieval Armenia, with the ultimate resolution of becoming important contributors to a nascent, specialized field of study. This article probes the origins of the French attitude and of the incipient field of study by considering selected scholars’ work. Analyzing the studies of Antoine Meillet, Charles Diehl, and Jurgis Baltrušaitis, as exemplars, highlights phases of the movement’s development, from a progressive rediscovery of the Christian “East”, to a committed Armenophilia, and, finally, to a systematic, disinterested, formalist study of Armenian art as intersection and mediator of forms and ideas. This perspective, viewed against the backdrop of one of the greatest tragedies in modern history, provides a long view and explanation of an evolving scholarly attitude. It uncovers the roots of today’s prevailing attitudes toward Armenian artistic culture.

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)

Citovat

PALLADINO, Adrien. From Desperate Solidarity to Dispassionate Eye : Shifting French Perspectives on Early Medieval Armenian Art (ca 1894–1929). In Palladino, Adrien; Campini, Ruben; Moraschi, Annalisa; Foletti, Ivan. Re-Thinking Late Antique Armenia : Historiography, Material Culture, and Heritage. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023, p. 96-115. Convivium Supplementum, 11. ISBN 978-80-280-0306-7. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.135378.

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PALLADINO, Adrien. From Desperate Solidarity to Dispassionate Eye : Shifting French Perspectives on Early Medieval Armenian Art (ca 1894–1929). In Palladino, Adrien; Campini, Ruben; Moraschi, Annalisa; Foletti, Ivan. \textit{Re-Thinking Late Antique Armenia : Historiography, Material Culture, and Heritage}. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023, p.~96-115. Convivium Supplementum, 11. ISBN~978-80-280-0306-7. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.135378.

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