Our conference
Unfinished Empire? Visual Arts and Architecture in Post-Imperial Contexts, 1900–2022
will take place at
The Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague
on 19–20 May 2023.
Tag: Poland
Memories of the Landscape and Its People – National Histories, Imperial Memories Session 5
Session 4 of our online seminar series National Histories, Imperial Memories: Representing the Past in Interwar Central Europe will take place at
18.00 CET on 30 November 2021
on Zoom, featuring papers by
Heidi Cook (Truman State University, Kirksville)
Bohdan Shumylovych (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv and Center for Urban History, Lviv)
Nóra Veszprémi (Masaryk University, Brno – CRAACE)
Moderator: Julia Secklehner (Masaryk University, Brno – CRAACE)
Commemorations of War – National Histories, Imperial Memories Session 3
Session 3 of our online seminar series National Histories, Imperial Memories: Representing the Past in Interwar Central Europe will take place at
18.00 CET on 2 November 2021
on Zoom, featuring papers by
Michal Cáp (Charles University, Prague) and Vojtěch Kessler (Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Kamil Ruszała (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska (Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) and Izabela Mrzygłód (University of Warsaw)
Moderator: Nancy Wingfield (Northern Illinois University)
Modernity and Religion Session 3: Religious Art and Political Change
Session 3 of our workshop Modernity and Religion in Central European Art and Architecture will take place at
18.00 CET on 18 March 2021
on Zoom, featuring papers by
Marcus van der Meulen (RWTH Aachen University)
and
Vanessa Parent (Montreal; Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome).
Years of Disarray 1908-1928: Avant-Gardes in Central Europe
At the Museum of Art in Olomouc there is currently an exhibition on central European modernism that anyone with an interest in the topic should attend. The Museum is not a major stop on the network of galleries in central Europe, but it should be, since it has built up a track record of imaginative and engaging exhibitions on twentieth-century art, with a particular emphasis on the exploration of international connections. This event is no exception. As the title suggests, the twenty years between 1908 and 1928 were a period of social and cultural tumult, when traditional ideas and values were either subject to massive revision or outright rejection. The title also indicates an important aspect of the exhibition: that while political events lead us to view 1918 as an artistic and cultural caesura, most of the major innovations in art after the First World War were prefigured by practices set in motion beforehand. It therefore explores the decades either side of the end of the War.