[spectre] CFP: Art history and discourse on the centre and periphery (Zagreb, 19-21 May 22)
Andreas Broeckmann
broeckmann at leuphana.de
Mon Nov 29 09:48:08 CET 2021
From: Croatian Society of Art Historians
Date: Nov 28, 2021
Subject: CFP: Art history and discourse on the centre and periphery
(Zagreb, 19-21 May 22)
Zagreb, Croatia, May 19–21, 2022
Deadline: Jan 25, 2022
Art history and discourse on the centre and periphery - An homage to
Ljubo Karaman
Since its founding in 1956, the Croatian Society of Art Historians has
brought art historians together to promote the importance of our
profession through a variety of events and publishing projects.
Over the past eight years, we have undertaken a project entitled
"Croatian Art Historians", which we believe will have an important
impact on domestic and international dialogue.
This international conference encourages academics and scholars to meet
and exchange ideas and views in a forum that will stimulate respectful
dialogue by bringing together European and international university
scholars to share ideas and research on the dualistic centre-periphery
paradigm in terms of art history based on work by Ljubo Karaman.
Ljubo Karaman (1886–1971) was a Croatian art historian. Karaman’s
theoretical and practical work strongly marked the formative period of
art history and conservation in Croatia between the two world wars and
in the immediate postwar period. His most important contribution to the
general history of art lies in his theoretical considerations of the
notion of the periphery, the true historical basis of which is the
artistic heritage of the Croatian regions. Karaman combined the
theoretical results of his research experience in the study of national
heritage in his book O djelovanju domaće sredine u umjetnosti hrvatskih
krajeva (Über die Einwirkung des einheimischen Milieus auf die
Entwicklung der Kunst in den kroatischen Ländern, Zagreb: Croatian
Society of Art Historians, 1963). Karaman’s study was an internationally
acclaimed contribution to thought on one of the key issues in
contemporary art history and cultural history. This issue is still
relevant today, as confirmed by the numerous international conferences,
research networks, and projects that focus on it. Contemporary critical
thought is trending towards the complete deconstruction and overcoming
of ideologically manipulated dualism in the valorization of cultural
production in the ‘periphery’. Such manipulation perpetuates the
paradigms of the relationship between power and influence, which are
dictated from the very centres in which they were created. The
conference in Zagreb will contribute to a critical reflection on the
origins, application, and challenges of the dualistic paradigm,
primarily in art history between the Adriatic and Central Europe, which
was the focus of Karaman’s work.
Ljubo Karaman was educated at the Vienna School of Art History at the
beginning of the 20th century; his approach to historical art phenomena
was essentially determined by the cosmopolitanism of the Vienna School
and its affirmative attitude towards art in the ‘provinces’ (or
peripheries). Another important element is his dialectical attitude
towards the ideas of early 20th-century Austrian, Italian, Croatian, and
Yugoslav art historians. Likewise, as a conservator, Karaman was
delimited by the norms of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (k. k. Central
Commission für Erforschung und Erhaltung der Baudenkmale), which was
marked by the concepts and methodology of the new conservation movement
in central Europe. In the field of conservation in the 20th century,
Karaman was responsible for connecting European centres and the Croatian
periphery.
Karaman’s conservation work took place during a period of great changes
and challenges, not only in the field of cultural heritage protection,
but also in the field of politics. After the Italian occupation of
Dalmatia in 1941, Karaman moved from Split to Zagreb, where he accepted
the position of director of the State Conservation Institute during the
Independent State of Croatia. He remained in this position in the new,
socialist Yugoslavia until 1950, when he retired. His active and
critical role in three different political, economic, and ideological
structures still encourages reflection on the possibilities and
achievements of art historians, conservators, museologists, and experts
in related disciplines in the scientific interpretation of heritage and
the protection of monuments, in ‘primitive’, local parochialist, or
nationally ideologised environments, i.e. under totalitarian regimes and
social systems. This simultaneously begs the issue of the freedom of art
historians/conservators and the conscientious, professional, and
impartial performance of their duties.
Conference participants should focus on one of the following issues in
their presentations:
- critical reflection on the emergence, application, and challenges of
the dualistic centre-periphery paradigm,
- the centre-periphery paradigm in the field of conservation and
monument protection,
- the Vienna School of Art History and interpretation of the art of the
periphery (provinces) during the monarchy and after its disintegration,
- national art histories and the centre-periphery paradigm,
- the professions of art history and conservation in the 20th century
between provincialism, cosmopolitanism and political totalitarianism,
- new insights into the life and work of Ljubo Karaman,
- the reception of Ljubo Karaman’s work from the perspective of
“entangled” art history,
- the reception and implementation of conservation theories and
conventions between 1920 and 1965.
Organizing Committee
Franko Ćorić, PhD, Department of Art History Faculty of Humanities and
Social Sciences University of Zagreb
Ljerka Dulibić, PhD, The Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters of the
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Jasenka Gudelj, PhD, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca’
Foscari University Venice
Zvonko Maković, PhD, president of the Croatian Society of Art Historians
Predrag Marković, PhD, Department of Art History Faculty of Humanities
and Social Sciences University of Zagreb
Milan Pelc, PhD, Institute of Art History, Zagreb
Martina Petrinović, secretary of the Croatian Society of Art Historians
Organizing Committee is responsible for nominating Keynote and Featured
Speakers; developing the conference program and overseeing the reviewing
of abstracts submitted to the conference
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 25, 2022
online application form
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0Z8ixdS1CqcHv2Ta72hYBAMZjeX3v9T-rR65NFGkFEcOEmg/viewform?usp=send_form
Presentation format: oral presentation (15 minutes) – each presentation
is followed by short discussion
Conference fee: 55 EUR (after acceptance)
Contact: Croatian Society of Art Historians // dpuh at inet.hr //
www.dpuh.hr // Preradovićeva 44, Zagreb // +38514812920
Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Art history and discourse on the centre and periphery (Zagreb,
19-21 May 22). In: ArtHist.net, Nov 28, 2021.
<https://arthist.net/archive/35423>.
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