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Parution : Wojciech Bałus et Magdalena Kunińska (dir.), “Art Historiography and Iconologies Between West and East”, Londres, Routledge, 2024

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.

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OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Fiammetta Campagnoli (1 octobre 2024). Parution : Wojciech Bałus et Magdalena Kunińska (dir.), “Art Historiography and Iconologies Between West and East”, Londres, Routledge, 2024. Collectif d'Historiens de l'Art de la Renaissance. Consulté le 12 février 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/13q4t


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