03903namaa2200961uu 4500 oapen88243 oapen 20251217011852.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 240424s2024a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 1426022952 OCoLC 9780367684341 9780367684358 9781003137528 10.4324/9781003137528 doi (OCoLC)1426022952 oapen oapen eng dc A thema AG thema AGA thema Bałus, Wojciech aut Art Historiography and Iconologies Between West and East Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2024 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Studies in Art Historiography Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star 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. Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng History of art thema The Arts: treatments and subjects thema The Arts thema architecture art historian art history center Central Europe centre communism Czechoslovakia Eastern Europe Ernst H. Kantorowicz Erwin Panofsky Estonia Europe Friedrich Mobius German Democratic Republic Germany Godefridus Johannes Hoogewerff Hans Sedlmayr Helga Sciurie iconology intellectual history Jan Białostocki Jena Lech Kalinowski Marxism methodology Mikhail Liebmann Mikhail Sokolov oppression periphery Poland politics Prague Romania social realism Soviet bloc Soviet Union Warburg Institute Western Europe Zofia Ameisenowa Bałus, Wojciech edt Kunińska, Magdalena edt OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88243 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 37187 37187