Universal - International - Global

From Socialist "Weltkunstgeschichte" to today's Global Art History and World Art Studies.

This collection of articles explores a possible alternative beginning of Global Art History and World Art Studies, two methodologies that set a worldwide focus in the study of art around the 2000s. Teaching back to earlier efforts to conceive of the international community in a less Eurocentric way, the volume proposes a tentative link between socialist internationalism as a political and cultural diplomatic principle in the Soviet Block and some new approaches to art and cultural historiography introduced there. In the Second World, universal art history or Weltkunstgeschichte were endorsed as frameworks for the teaching and writing of art history. Authors in this book interrogate whether world art history as practiced by socialist scholars had aspirations and achievements comparable to today's Global Art History and World Art Studies. Or was this knowledge production in an internationalist paradigm a mere foil for communist rhetoric, behind which severed cultural relations to the Western world could also be recommenced?

Auteur
Dr Corinne Geering is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig. She completed her PhD in 2018 at the University of Giessen. Dr Corinne Geering is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig. She completed her PhD in 2018 at the University of Giessen. Krista Kodres ist Professorin für Kunstgeschichte an der Estnischen Kunstakademie, Tallinn, und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Universität Tallinn. Krista Kodres ist Professorin für Kunstgeschichte an der Estnischen Kunstakademie, Tallinn, und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Universität Tallinn. Robert Born ist Kunsthistoriker und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Bundesinstitut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa. Robert Born ist Kunsthistoriker und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Bundesinstitut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa. Antje Kempe, PhD, is art historian and researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO), University of Greifswald, where she is member of the project "Shared Heritage". Marina Dmitrieva ist Kunsthistorikerin in Leipzig. Ihre Forschungsgebiete umfassen die transnationelle visuelle Kultur und die Kunstgeschichte Mittel- und Osteuropas. Antje Kempe, PhD, is art historian and researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO), University of Greifswald, where she is member of the project "Shared Heritage". Beáta Hock, PhD ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO) in Leipzig, wo sie in der Abteilung "Verflechtung und Globalisierung" tätig ist.