Session 1 of our workshop Modernity and Religion in Central European Art and Architecture will take place at
18.00 CET on 18 February 2021
on Zoom, featuring papers by
Matthew Rampley (Masaryk University, Brno)
and
Manuela Klauser (Independent Scholar, Munich).
The first event of our workshop Modernity and Religion in Central European Art and Architecture will take place at
18.00 CET on 4 February 2021
on Zoom.
Cynthia Paces (The College of New Jersey, NJ)
will present her keynote lecture:
A marked aspect of modernist art and architecture was the search for the spiritual. This has long been recognised, but the involvement of organised religion remains much less examined. Focusing on interwar central Europe, the online lecture series Modernity and Religion in Central European Art and Architecture examines critically the stakes involved in the engagement with religious faith by artists and architects, as well as the role of religiously-motivated state and church patronage in shaping cultural politics.
The workshop is organised in cooperation with the Belvedere, Vienna.
The events will take place on Zoom, every fortnight starting on 4 Feb 2021 and concluding with a roundtable on 13 May 2021. The lectures will begin at 18.00 CET.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Future Prospects for Art History in Central Europe: Questions, Methods, Topics
A workshop organised at Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Art History
on 17-18 June 2020
What are the most prominent and important issues motivating art historians in east-central Europe at present? Are they methodological? Political? Thematic? Curatorial / museological? Conceptual? Or are they to do with debates relating to a particular period or geographical question?
This workshop is intended to provide a forum for considering answers to that question and for an assessment of the current state of art history in east-central Europe. Its aim, too, is to identify one or more potential projects that might give art historical practice in east-central Europe a higher profile and underpin an application for a European Research Council synergy grant (https://erc.europa.eu/funding/synergy-grants).
The second CRAACE conference, ‘Multiplying Modernity: Vernacular Modernisms, Nostalgia and the Avant-Garde’, took place in the East Slovak Gallery, Košice, from 6 to 7 December 2019 and examined the roles of folk art, the vernacular and regionalism in interwar East/Central European modernism. The conference programme can be accessed here.
