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The article focuses on a selection of codices, i.e.Codex Averulinus, Codex Cortesius, Codex Didymus and Codex Hieronymus, illuminated in Florence, Italy during the last years of King Mathias Corvinus' reign. It puts them into a context with literary and artistic monuments of humanistic court culture, known for intensive activities in building and decorative enterprises, motivated by the King's political...
The book presents texts from an international colloquium held on December 11-13, 2003 at the Hotel Forum and the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava in the conception of Jan Bakos. The title of the international colloquium and published colloquium proceedings encapsulate a trend in the recent discussion about the relationship between art and the market, and it also indicates the viewpoint...
The article summarizes the life and work of painter Leopold Horovitz (1838, Rozhanovce - 1917, Vienna). Of Jewish origin, educated in Kosice and Vienna and active in Hungary, Austria, Poland and France, L. Horovitz concentrated on portrait and genre painting, through his whole career working in an academically classic style. This strategy proved to be highly successful. In Vienna, he found his way...
The article examines an influence of the Viennese Art History School onto the art-historical thinking in Rumania during the 20th century. Three names proved to be the most influential. Philosopher Lucian Blaga (1895 -1961) made use of Alois Riegl's pluralistic notion of 'style'. Corolian Petranu (1893 -1945) and Virgil Vatasianu (1902 -1993), pupils of Josef Strzygowski, employed nationalistic standpoints...
On a side altar in St. Nicholas' parish church at Brzeziny, one can find a Late Gothic relief 'Mourning over the Dead Christ' (around 1501) that has never been sufficiently formally and historically explained. Via examining its connections to works by Veit Stoss and to altars from Lucky (1470-1480) and Arnutovce (1490 -1500) in Slovakia, the article, paying tribute to the 500 anniversary of the church's...
The article addresses specific decorative motives of the Villa Star (1555 -1558) in the Liboc suburb of Prague, an Italianate villa built together with the Royal Summerhouse known under the name of Queen Anne in the garden of the Prague Castle (1537 -1563) to support the imperial candidature of the Bohemian and Hungarian King, Ferdinand I Habsburg. From 1556 to1560 the ceilings of ground floor were...
The article analyses an often-appraised early work of Josef Strzygowski (1862-1941), a controversial Austrian art historian, predominantly dealing with problems of the artistic interplay between Orient and Europe, Late Roman Art being the central case study. The analysis shows - in comparison to a similarly oriented work of another influential cotemporary Austrian art historian, Alois Riegl (1858...
The article presents interviews with two influential art historians who both plead for rewriting or at least deconstructing modernity, in their eyes a problematic project. The search for contents under a common situation of 'pluralism' might be the common denominator of the interviews that coincide from their different positioning - Kuspit nearer to the symbolic dmension and Danto from the defense...
The article analyses the employment of architectural citation - a central category in the historiography of Medieval architecture. It points out that in spite of a stable use predominantly in transmitting formal and historical influences, a lack of its theoretical and methodological definition is apparent. Through literary and architectural examples, the article examines two major standpoints - one...
This essay seeks to examine questions relating to the Biennale of Sharjah and occurrences of censorship at the 2003 Biennale. Through an analysis of Okwui Enwezor's article 'The Black Box' from the Documenta XI catalogue, coupled with an examination of three works of art from the 2003 Sharjah Biennale (Philippe Terrier-Hermann's 'The Romans', Wolfgang Staehle's 'Untitled 2001', Zhu Ming's 'July 26,...
The article deals with a specific strategy of distributing artefacts via multiplied objects. This artistic standpoint led to the birth of an ideology of multiples in the 1960s, seeking ways of bringing art to most of the people, and of wiping out differences between artistic originals and industrial products. Although weakened in the following decades, this mode of artistic perception took a second...
The article maps the international activities of artists on the unofficial Slovak art scene in the period between the 2nd Slovak Visual Artists' Union Congress (2. 11. 1972), launching normalization of artistic life in the aftermath of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies in August 1968, and the issue of Charter '77 (1. 1. 1977), ushering in a period of courageous and continuous...
The article takes a closer look at contacts of Spanish painter Oscar Dominguez, a member of the Paris School, with Czechoslovak and particularly Slovak territory during the first years after the Second World War. O. Dominguez did not take part only in a series of collective and individual exhibitions, but actively pursued his own work in ateliers mainly in Prague, Olomouc and Bratislava while visiting...
The article examines the professional contacts of painter Hans Mattis Teutsch (1884-1960) with the Romanian avant-garde in all of their various forms. Educated in Budapest, Munich, Paris and Berlin, active in the circles around the Romanian cultural journals 'Ma', 'Contimporanul' and predominantly 'Integral' and the German journal 'Der Sturm'. From 1920 to 1936, H. M. Teutsch was one of the most...
The article focuses on the last decade of the 20th century in the Balkan region, aiming at analysing the changes in the contemporary art world within the context of transitional societies such as Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Slovenia and Bosnia - Herzegovina. By interpreting works of some thirty artists (e.g. Tanja Ostojic, Tomislav Gotovac, Vlasta Delimar or Marina Grzinic), the author is trying to discern...
The issue of identity, body and corporeality, and the reflection of gender issues have been among the relevant subjects of contemporary video art in Slovakia since the 1990s. In this context it is necessary to emphasize that it was female artists (e.g. Jana Zelibska or Pavlina Fichta Cierna) who promptly responded to a number of new socio-cultural phenomena. In addition to the examination of identity,...
Sophie Calle's literary texts are very profoundly associated with 'intimate writing', and they are fruits of various strategies as well, such as mixture of the author and the narrator, or keeping the reader in a 'pendant' position. Somewhere in between autobiography and a longing for fiction there is a vast self-fabulation, thoroughly confirming the artist's position as a writer and her authorial...
The author sees the artistic scenes of East European countries in the period after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 as a birthplace of art torn between illusions and real things, between 'ostalgia' and its critique, one identity and then another one; of art in a process of 'permanent revelation', appealing to and talking about people, about what they are fond of and what they are confronted with;...
The article deals with an intellectual interplay between Clement Greenberg and Pierre Restany, two influential art critics of the 20th century, taking place during the early 1960s. Besides vis-a-vis dialogues, such as those during the Torcuato di Tella Prize Award in Buenos Aires (1964), they also met via publishing their articles in the journals Domus and Preuves. They discussed actual problems of...
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