Art and the State in Modern Central Europe (18th – 21st Century): Conference Proceedings

Authors

Josipa Alviž (ed)
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Art History
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8815-2743
Dragan Damjanović (ed)
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Art History
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2589-8075
Jasmina Nestić (ed)
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Art History
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5063-4456
Jeremy F. Walton (ed)
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and the University of Rijeka
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3378-7095
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17234/9789533792170

Synopsis

When the project Art and the State in Croatia from the Enlightenment to the Present was conceived in 2017, the central dissemination activity was planned to be an international conference, which would, on the one hand, present the work of the researchers on the project, and on the other hand, bring together other researchers whose interests revolve around the relationship between art and the state in Central Europe in the modern period. The conference was originally supposed to be held in the summer of 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the two earthquakes that hit Zagreb that same year, it was eventually held in a hybrid form in the summer of 2021.

Researchers from numerous European countries and the United States of America presented their new, original research on the most diverse aspects of the relationship between art and the state. More than half of them – forty-five in total – decided to publish their papers in the book of proceedings that is in front of you. The book contains nine sections arranged according to the topics covered in the papers.

The main areas of the authors’ research interest in terms of geography are the former Habsburg Empire, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the socialist Yugoslav state, the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. This is not surprising – not only do most of the authors come from the areas that used to be part of these political formations, but these areas are also extremely suitable for research on the relationship between art and the state. The political instability during the 20th century – especially the fragmentation of bygone empires and the ascendancy of nation-states – as well as the multi-ethnic and multi-confessional nature of these territories make them particularly suitable for studying the relationship between art and the state, transitional periods, political iconography, social and/or national relations, the influence of globalization, the phenomenon of damnatio memoriae and the like. This is precisely why everyone interested in modern and contemporary art history from the Baltic to the Mediterranean will find something to pique their interest in this collection.

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Author Biographies

Josipa Alviž, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Art History

She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb where she teaches several compulsory and elective courses in MA programme of Art History. She received her Ph.D.  in Art History from the same University in 2015 with the thesis Paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries in the Capuchin Churches and Monasteries in Croatia. She has participated in several scientific projects funded by the Croatian Science Foundation, including the current projects “Representation, Development, Education, Participation – Art in Society in 19th-21st Centuries” and “Patterns of Patronage. Commissioners, Artists and Public in Zagreb in 17th and long 18th century”. She has authored 22 scientific papers and chapters, co-authored one book (Katolička crkva u Hrvatskoj, 2018), co-edited two volumes (Vodič za nastavnike mentore. Stručna studentska praksa u školama, 2023; Art and the State in Modern Central Europe 18th – 21st Century, 2024) and participated in 20 scientific conferences. Since 2012 she has been an associate of the National Centre for External Evaluation of Education in Zagreb, working as a member of the expert group for the state graduation exams in Visual Arts, and since 2015 a member of the examination committee for the professional examination of Visual Arts teachers (Education and Teacher Training Agency, Zagreb). In 2015 she was appointed member of the expert group for composing the National Curriculum for the Subjects of Visual Culture and Visual Arts and in 2016 an expert associate on the educational project “Creating Common Core Curriculum for ART based on Learning Outcomes” conducted by the Agency for Pre-Primary, Primary and Secondary Education of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her professional interests include methodology of teaching art history, history of learning and teaching art history and visual arts of the 17th and 18th century.

Dragan Damjanović, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Art History

He is a Full Professor at the Art History Department, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia. He is teaching and researching the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Croatian and European art and architecture. He has authored 19 books (among them: Đakovo Cathedral, 2009; Architect Herman Bollé, 2013; Zagreb – Architectural Atlas, 2016; Otto Wagner and the Croatian Architecture, German edition, 2018; Great Zagreb Earthquakes, 2021), edited four volumes (latest is the Forging Architectural Tradition. National Narratives, Monument Preservation and Architectural Work in the Nineteenth Century, Berghahn, New York, Oxford, 2022, co-editor with. Aleksander Łupienko), published numerous papers in edited books and journals (among them, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Centropa, Urban Design International, Umění/Art, Acta Historiae Artium, Zeitschrift für Ostmittleuropa-Forschung, RIHA Journal), curated exhibitions and organized congresses related to this subject. He was awarded 8 national awards for his work, the most important of which are: the Croatian National Scientific Award (2006), the Zagreb City Council Award (2015), and the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Annual Award (2016). He has been heading the following projects: “Shaping (Post)Modern Life” (University of Zagreb project) and “Representation, Development, Education, Participation. Art in Society in 19th -21st Centuries” (Croatian Science Foundation project).

Jasmina Nestić, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Art History

She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb where she teaches several compulsory and elective courses in MA programme of Art History. She received her Ph.D.  in Art History from the same University in 2014 with the thesis Illusionistic painted altars in the Northwest Croatia during the 18th century. She has participated in several scientific projects, including the current project “Representation, Development, Education, Participation – Art in Society in 19th-21st Centuries”, funded by Croatian Science Foundation. In 2024 she led the project “Artistic heritage in the age of digital reproduction – approaches to research, preservation, presentation and teaching” (University of Zagreb). She has authored 25 scientific papers and chapters, co-edited three volumes (Održivost kulturne baštine, 2023; Vodič za nastavnike mentore. Stručna studentska praksa u školama, 2023; Art and the State in Modern Central Europe 18th – 21st Century, 2024) and participated in 20 scientific conferences. Since 2011 she has been an associate of the National Centre for External Evaluation of Education in Zagreb, working as a member of the expert group for the state graduation exams in Visual Arts, and since 2015 a member of the examination committee for the professional examination of Visual Arts teachers (Education and Teacher Training Agency, Zagreb). She was a member of the team awarded the Charter of the Croatian Society of Art Historians in 2012. Her professional interests include methodology of teaching art history, history of learning and teaching art history and visual art of the 17th and 18th century.

Jeremy F. Walton, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and the University of Rijeka

He is a cultural anthropologist whose research resides at the intersection of memory studies, urban studies, the comparative study of empires and imperialism, and critical perspectives on materiality. He leads the research group “REVENANT—Revivals of Empire: Nostalgia, Amnesia, Tribulation” at the University of Rijeka, Croatia, with support from a European Research Council consolidator grant (#10100290). Prior to this, he led the Max Planck Research Group, “Empires of Memory: The Cultural Politics of Historicity in Former Habsburg and Ottoman Cities,” at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany. Dr. Walton received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2009. His first book, Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey (Oxford University Press, 2017), is an ethnography of Muslim NGOs, state institutions, and secularism in contemporary Turkey. He has also held research and teaching fellowships at the Center for Advanced Studies of Southeastern Europe at the University of Rijeka, the CETREN Transregional Research Network at Georg August University of Göttingen, Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, and New York University’s Religious Studies Program. His writing has appeared in a plethora of scholarly and popular journals, including American Ethnologist, Sociology of Islam, Die Welt Des Islams, History and Anthropology, The Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, Jadaliyya, and Sidecar (The New Left Review). REVENANT, which Dr. Walton designed, is an interdisciplinary, multi-sited project on postimperial memories and legacies in post-Habsburg, post-Ottoman realms, and post-Romanov realms.

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