Orient oder Rom?

History and Reception of a Historiographical Myth (1901-1970)

by Klara Benesovska, Francesco Lovino, Adrien Palladino, Robin Cormack, William J. Diebold, Marta Filipova, Ivan Foletti, Zuzana Frantova, Petra Heckova, Yuka Kadoi and Elif Kok and edited by Ivan Foletti and Francesco Lovino

Book cover: Orient oder Rom?

Extent: 184 pages

Publisher: Viella – libreria editrice

Subjects: Art & Art History

Series: I libri di Viella. Arte / Studia Artium Medievalium Brunensia

Series volume number: 7

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(November 2018)

ISBN: 9788833131047

Price: $41.00

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Today, the question of the origins of Christian aesthetics is no longer a topical issue in medieval art history, although a persuasive answer has never been formulated. One of the reasons for this oblivion deals with the looming figure of Josef Strzygowski, who published his pivotal volume Orient oder Rom in 1901, now discredited for its racial and proto-Nazi ideas. However, the debate does not concern Strzygowski alone: the prodromes of this critical concept go back to the nineteenth century, when the Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires fought to control contested territories, and studies of the humanities mirrored these conflicts. This volume, originating in the urgency to reflect on this pivotal conundrum in our field, attempts to reconstruct the (mis)fortune of a question that, according to Alois Riegl, “is the most important and most trenchant one in the entire history of mankind to date”.

  • By (author) Klara Benesovska
  • By (author) Robin Cormack
  • By (author) William J. Diebold
  • By (author) Marta Filipova
  • By (author) Ivan Foletti
  • By (author) Zuzana Frantova
  • By (author) Petra Heckova
  • By (author) Yuka Kadoi
  • By (author) Elif Kok
  • By (author) Francesco Lovino
  • By (author) Adrien Palladino
  • Edited by Ivan Foletti
  • Edited by Francesco Lovino