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Art Historiography and Iconologies Between West and East

by Wojciech Balus , Magdalena Kunińska
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780367684358
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
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  • Pages: 240
  • Original Price: GBP 42.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 450 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History / General

This volume explores a basic question in the historiography of art: the extent to which iconology was a homogenous research method in its own immutable right. By contributing to the rejection of the universalizing narrative, these case studies argue that there were many strands of iconology.

Methods that differed from the 'canonised' approach of Panofsky were proposed by Godefridus Johannes Hoogewerff and Hans Sedlmayr. Researchers affiliated with the Warburg Institute in London also chose to distance themselves from Panofsky's work. Poland, in turn, was the breeding ground for yet another distinct variety of iconology. In Communist Czechoslovakia there were attempts to develop a 'Marxist iconology'. This book, written by recognized experts in the field, examines these and other major strands of iconology, telling the tale of iconology's reception in the countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain. Attitudes there ranged from enthusiastic acceptance in Poland, to critical reception in the Soviet Union, to reinterpretation in Czechoslovakia and the German Democratic Republic, and, finally, to outright rejection in Romania.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, and historiography.

Chapters 8 and 15 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 international license

Wojciech Balus is Professor at the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.

Magdalena Kunińska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Art History at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.

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