British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London
02 and 03 September 2009
This Conference examines the impact of the ideas of the Vienna School of Art History in Central Europe and Beyond. The Vienna School has been widely recognised as playing a crucial role in the establishment of art history as an academic discipline. Most scholarship on the School has, however, privileged authors writing in German. Vienna was, of course, the capital of the multi-ethnic Habsburg Empire, and many students of Art History at the University were of Polish, Slovenian, Czech, Croat or Hungarian origin.
This conference considers, therefore, the dissemination and transformation of the ideas associated with the Vienna School throughout Austria-Hungary and the successor states of Central Europe after 1918. It examines both the ways in which the ideas of the Vienna School shaped the formative historiographies of art across Central Europe and also how they were transformed when applied to new contexts, in particular, the political and ideological imperatives of the new states after the collapse of the Empire.
To register and for further information contact:
Prof. Matthew Rampley
Institute of Design, Culture and the Arts
Teesside University
Middlesbrough
TS1 3BA
Email: m.rampley@tees.ac.uk
Telephone: 01642 342594