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The present paper is reminiscence and an attempt to reconstruct the intellectual heritage of art history as it was practiced at the University of Poznań in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s in the context of new developments in cultural theory and changing research interests. Besides, it includes the author’s account of his own academic work in that period, began in the 1960s and inspired in particular by the year 1968 that brought a social crisis and a cultural revolution, as well as introduced the element of imagination into academic knowledge and critical thought. The author draws a wide panorama of intellectual stimuli which contributed to an epistemic and methodological turn, first in his own scholarly work and then in the work of some other art historians in Poznań. Those turns opened art history at the University of Poznań to critical reading of artistic practices approached in relation to other social practices and subjects of power. As a result, four key problems were addressed: (1) the position of contemporary art in research and teaching, (2) the necessity to combine detailed historical studies with critical theoretical reflection, (3) the questioning of genre boundaries and ontological statuses of the objects of study and the semantic frames of the work of art, and finally, in connection to the rise of an interdisciplinary perspective, (4) the subversion of the boundaries and identity of art history as an academic discipline. Then the author reconstructs the theoretical background of the “new art history” that emerged some time later, drawing from the writings of Walter Benjamin, the French structuralism, Theodor Adorno’s aesthetic theory, and Louis Althusser’s interpretation of the concept of ideology. Another important problematic was the avant-garde art of Poland and other East-Central European countries, studiedin terms of artistic geography and the relations between the center and periphery. The conclusion of the paper presents a framework marked with the names of Aby Warburg and Max Dvořák, which connected the tradition of art history with new developments, took under consideration the seminal element of crisis, and allowed art historians to address a complex network of relations among the artist’s studio, the curator’s practice, the scholar’s study, and the university seminar, as well as the West, the Center, and the East. At last, the author remembers the revolutionary, rebellious spirit and the lesson of imagination that the Poznań art history took from March and May, 1968.
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The present paper is reminiscence and an attempt to reconstruct the intellectual heritage of art history as it was practiced at the University of Poznań in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s in the context of new developments in cultural theory and changing research interests. Besides, it includes the author’s account of his own academic work in that period, began in the 1960s and inspired in particular by the year 1968 that brought a social crisis and a cultural revolution, as well as introduced the element of imagination into academic knowledge and critical thought. The author draws a wide panorama of intellectual stimuli which contributed to an epistemic and methodological turn, first in his own scholarly work and then in the work of some other art historians in Poznań. Those turns opened art history at the University of Poznań to critical reading of artistic practices approached in relation to other social practices and subjects of power. As a result, four key problems were addressed: (1) the position of contemporary art in research and teaching, (2) the necessity to combine detailed historical studies with critical theoretical reflection, (3) the questioning of genre boundaries and ontological statuses of the objects of study and the semantic frames of the work of art, and finally, in connection to the rise of an interdisciplinary perspective, (4) the subversion of the boundaries and identity of art history as an academic discipline. Then the author reconstructs the theoretical background of the “new art history” that emerged some time later, drawing from the writings of Walter Benjamin, the French structuralism, Theodor Adorno’s aesthetic theory, and Louis Althusser’s interpretation of the concept of ideology. Another important problematic was the avant-garde art of Poland and other East-Central European countries, studied in terms of artistic geography and the relations between the center and periphery. The conclusion of the paper presents a framework marked with the names of Aby Warburg and Max Dvořák, which connected the tradition of art history with new developments, took under consideration the seminal element of crisis, and allowed art historians to address a complex network of relations among the artist’s studio, the curator’s practice, the scholar’s study, and the university seminar, as well as the West, the Center, and the East. At last, the author remembers the revolutionary, rebellious spirit and the lesson of imagination that the Poznań art history took from March and May, 1968.
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The article describes and analyses scientific and organizational activities of Otakar Nahodil at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, within the wider context of Czech ethnography and folkloristics in the 1940-1960s. Based on the study of sources that have never been used for this theme to date and that originate in the management of the Faculty of Arts Charles University, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and various security forces, it was possible to trace the Nahodil´s way to the position of a probably most influential eminent authority in the ethnological science at that time, as well as his subsequent steep power fall. The study points to a lot of extraordinary problematic features of Nahodil´s research work and personality, which - within specific contexts of that period (ongoing marxization, or stalinization of scientific research and transformation in its themes, cleansing and settling of personal scores at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, development of the study of extra-European territories under the monitoring of intelligent services etc.) - strongly influenced the direction of Czech ethnology at that time.
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The content of the work includes an in-depth reflection on the subject scope of human geography. The most important goal is to analyze the changes in understanding the content scope of one of the basic theoretical categories in human geography, which is the concept of place. The article develops a thesis on the historical development of the concept of a place. At different times of the discipline’s transformation and within the framework of different approaches to its subject of interest, there was a specific concept of place. The contemporary differentiation of the concept of place in human geography results from the evolution of classical approaches, and often earlier ones, and those stimulated by new theoretical and methodological patterns in social sciences. The question of place is one of the key approaches to the subject of research in human geography. Contemporary geographic models of the study of places have at least two main varieties. The first, traditional one, related primarily to human geography derived from the tradition of chorological and regional science, refers to explaining spatial orders in a global context. The second model of researching places is primarily related to the interest of human geographers in contemporary methodological approaches to social sciences and humanities. Researchers representing this field of study emphasize that the concept of place results from geography’s interest in the theory of social development and a cultural approach to space.
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Praca zawiera pogłębioną refleksję nad zakresem przedmiotowym geografii człowieka. Najważniejszym celem jest analiza zmian rozumienia zakresu treści jednej z podstawowych kategorii teoretycznych w geografii człowieka, którą jest pojęcie „miejsce”. W artykule rozwijana jest teza o historycznym rozwoju pojęcia miejsca. W różnych okresach przemian dyscypliny i w ramach odmiennych ujęć jej przedmiotu zainteresowania istniała określona koncepcja miejsca. Współczesne zróżnicowanie pojęcia miejsca w geografii człowieka wynika z ewolucji ujęć klasycznych, a często i wcześniejszych, oraz tych stymulowanych nowymi wzorcami teoretyczno-metodologicznymi w naukach społecznych. Kwestia miejsca jest jednym z kluczowych podejść do przedmiotu badań w geografii człowieka. Współczesne modele geograficzne badania miejsc mają przynajmniej dwie główne odmiany. Pierwsza, tradycyjna, związana przede wszystkim z geografią człowieka wywodzącą się z tradycji nauki chorologicznej i regionalnej, odnosi się do wyjaśniania porządków przestrzennych w kontekście globalnym. Druga wynika w szczególności z zainteresowania geografów człowieka współczesnymi ujęciami metodologicznymi nauk społecznych i humanistycznych (teorie rozwoju społecznego i kulturowe podejścia do przestrzeni).
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Even though the Cold War did not spill over into a real armed confrontation, some features of its development as well as consequences, felt up to now, can be compared with “real” war conflicts. Ethnologists in a number of European countries pay attention to the Cold War, for example through the research on collectiveand individual memory bound to the course of the War; they study the life of local communities strongly affected by the War; they explore the narrativity relating to the Cold War; also approaches in terms of anthropologyof landscape are very strong. The Cold War was not understood as a relevant ethnological theme in the CzechRepublic after 1989, and for this reason, the research on it has been “governed” either by different enthusiastic, semi-amateur or directly activistic fellowships, or the research itself has developedunder the wings of other disciplines (especially archaeology and history). The theoretical-methodological contribution introduces possible bases for the ethnological research into the Cold War in the Czech Republic, draws attention to the running researches and mainly sketches the basic thematic circles the future research could deal with.
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