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Infastructures of (the History of) Art
Buddeus, Hana ; Lomová, J.
The introductory chapter of the proceedings of the VIIth Congress of Art Historians, held in September 2021 in Ústí nad Labem, presents the topic of infrastructures as one of the central themes of contemporary art and asks what place they have in the discipline of art history. The focus is on the temporally and locally conditioned context, everything that surrounds the work, what materially constitutes it and what enables or directly conditions its existence, what preserves it in time and what brings attention to it.
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Ceiling Paintings and their Interpretation between Image and Material Structure
Mádl, Martin
The study is devoted to the problem of material in the structure of a work of art and its importance in art historical interpretation. Using the example of wall paintings, we consider the problem of grasping the role of material in art historical interpretation of a painting and the difficulties of professional dialogue between art historians on the one hand and restorers and technologists on the other.
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Infastructures of (the history of) art
Bartlová, A. ; Buddeus, Hana
Infrastructures are one of the central themes of contemporary art, what place do they have in the discipline of art history? Proceedings of the VIIth Congress of Art Historians, held in September 2021 in Ústí nad Labem, discusses the topic in five chapters, revealing the mechanisms of collecting, exhibiting and reproducing art, art education, and the conservation of art monuments. The focus is on the temporally and locally conditioned context, everything that surrounds the work, what materially constitutes it and what enables or directly conditions its existence, what preserves it in time and what brings attention to it.
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Rembrandt fecit – Liepmann gedruckt. Oil-painting in the age of mechanical printing
Trnková, Petra
On January 16, 1839, a short report appeared in the Preußische Staats-Zeitung announcing the possibility of perfect mechanical reproduction of oil paintings. The news, which soon spread to other countries through the local press, was about the invention of the Berlin painter Jacob Liepmann – the so-called Ölgemälde-Druck. The paper aims not only to recall the forgotten invention and its creator and to clarify Liepmann’s principle of mechanical reproduction of oil paintings, but also to shed light on the circumstances of its development, publication, existence and early demise. In addition, attention is paid to contemporary discussions on the topic of perfect, fast and easy reproduction of a painting and to the problem of making the works of old maters accessible to the public.
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The Geopolitics of Photography Exhibitions. Showcasing Soviet Photographers in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Parkmann, Fedora
This paper presents interwar exhibitions of photography as spaces of exchange, self-promotion, and competition for recognition in the heart of a global geopolitics of photography. Focusing on the participation of Soviet photographers at several large-scale international exhibitions organized in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s, it shows that both the Czech and Soviet organizers took advantage of exhibitions to serve their respective interests: The Soviet Union to strengthen its cultural diplomacy, and the Czech supporters of Soviet photography to popularize functional and committed photographic approaches among their fellow countrymen.
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Copies, Reproductions, Casts, Prints
Buddeus, Hana
The Covid-19 pandemic has once again drawn our attention to the importance of thinking through various aspects of remote access to originals or second-hand spectatorship within art history. Thanks to graphic prints, reduced or reproduced sculptures, various souvenirs and especially photographic reproductions printed in magazines, calendars, books, posters or hung online, art is circulating, leaving the elite environment of collections and gaining a new context. How can reproductions of various material forms, qualities and uses be considered within art history?
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