From: Kristina Jõekalda <kristina.joeka...@artun.ee>
Date: Jun 15, 2016
Subject: CONF: Art History and Socialism(s) after World War II (Tallinn,
27-29 Oct 2016)
Estonian Academy of Sciences main hall (Kohtu 6, Tallinn), October
27 - 29, 2016
Registration deadline: Oct 20, 2016
Art History and Socialism(s) after World War II: The 1940s until the 1960s
27th–29th October 2016, Tallinn
Venue: Estonian Academy of Sciences main hall (Kohtu 6, Tallinn)
Hosting institution: Institute of Art History and Visual Culture,
Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Thursday, 27th October
18.00 KEYNOTE PAPER Branko Mitrovic, Prof. Dr. (Norwegian University of
Science and Technology, Trondheim), Collectivist Historiography and its
Methodologies
20.00 Opening reception
Friday, 28th October
09.00 Registration
INTRODUCTION Krista Kodres, Prof. Dr. (Estonian Academy of Arts; Tallinn
University)
09.45 PANEL 1
Ekaterina Boltunova, Dr. (Higher School of Economics, Moscow),
Reinterpreting Imperial Art in the Post-War USSR: Soviet Views of
National Heritage
Milena Bartlová, Prof. Dr. (Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design,
Prague), New Political Orientation of Czech Art History around 1950
Ivan Gerát, Dr. (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava; University of
Trnava),
Marxist Iconology in Czechoslovakia before 1968
12.00 Lunch
13.30 PANEL 2
Nikolas Drosos, Dr. (Harriman Institute, Columbia University), ‘People’s
Realism: Interpreting Renaissance Art in 1950s Poland
Tereza Johanidesová, MA (Charles University; Václav Havel Library,
Prague), Did Marxist Iconology Exist in Czech Art History?
Carmen Popescu, Dr., Writing in the Void: Architectural History in
Socialist Romania
Juliana Maxim, Dr. (University of San Diego, California),
Socialist Historiography between Nation and Revolution: Writing the
History of Romanian Architecture in the 1960s
16.30 Coffee/tea
17.15 PANEL 3
Almira Ousmanova, Prof. Dr. (European Humanities University, Vilnius),
Not-Ready-Made: Flashback to the Soviet Version of Marxist Art History
Elena Khlopina, Dr. (Higher School of Economics, Moscow),
Research Method of A. A. Fedorov-Davydov and the Teaching of Art History
in Lomonosov Moscow State University in the 1950s–1960s
Nataliya Zlydneva, Prof. Dr. (Russian Academy of Science; Lomonosov
Moscow State University; State Institute for Art History; Moscow State
Conservatorium), Rereading the 1920s: Alternative Paths of Soviet Art
History
Saturday, 29th October
10.00 PANEL 4
Bart Pushaw, MA (University of Maryland, College Park),
Heroic Modernists of Peasant Blood: The Revolutionary Turn in Baltic Art
Histories
Raino Isto, MA (University of Maryland, College Park), ‘Modelling
Reality’: Writing the History of (Socialist) Albanian Sculpture – the
Case of Odhise Paskali
Karolina Labowicz-Dymanus, Dr. (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw),
Modernism on the Secret Service of Superstructure, Marxism-Leninism as a
Base of Modern Polish Art History: The Polish School of Art History in
the Late 1940s and 1950s
12.15 Lunch
14.00 PANEL 5
Piotr Juszkiewicz, Prof. Dr. (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan),
Socialist Modernism, Socialist Structuralism: Mieczysław Porębski’s
Socialist Art History
Katja Bernhardt, Dr. (Humboldt-University, Berlin),
Socialist Kunstwissenschaft in the GDR
Marina Dmitrieva, Dr. (Centre for History and Culture of East Central
Europe, Leipzig), Riddles of Modernism in the Late Soviet Discourse:
Mikhail Lifshits’ Battle against ‘New Barbarism?
CONCLUSIONS, GENERAL DISCUSSION
ORGANISATION The post-World War II socialism and related art historical
discourse had many faces: too many for a single conference. Therefore we
have launched a series of conferences, the first of which will be held
in Tallinn in October 2016, focusing on the decades immediately
following the war. In 2017 and 2018 follow-up conferences will be held
in Leipzig and Berlin.
Hosting institution: Institute of Art History and Visual Culture,
Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
Programme managers: Krista Kodres, Prof. Dr.; Michaela Marek, Prof. Dr.;
Kristina Jõekalda, MA; Kädi Talvoja, MA
Supporters: Estonian Research Council grant PUT788 (Historicizing Art:
Knowledge Production in Estonian Art History amidst Changing Ideologies
and Disciplinary Developments, principal investigator Krista Kodres);
Estonian Academy of Arts; Estonian Academy of Sciences
Partners: Chair of Art History of Eastern and East Central Europe at
Humboldt-University of Berlin; Centre for History and Culture of East
Central Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig
Visit http://www.artun.ee/en/x/conference-art-history-and-socialisms for
more details and registration.
Reference / Quellennachweis:
CONF: Art History and Socialism(s) after World War II (Tallinn, 27–29
Oct 2016). In: H-ArtHist, Jun 15, 2016. <http://arthist.net/archive/13274>.
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