WELCOME TO CAPITALISM. INSTITUTIONAL DIMENSIONS OF ART HISTORY IN POST-COMMUNIST SLOVAKIA

• Authors: Mária Orišková
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper examines the social and institutional dimensions of art history in post-communist Slovakia. Art history itself an often-presumed neutral autonomous science – though brutally contaminated ideologically in the previous regime – struggles today with several problems. Not only a lack of self-reflection on the discipline and its methods and a lack of critical dialogue with past practices, but a new socio-economic framework outline the set of questions that need to be asked. The fundamental question, which the author asks, is how the science entitled art historiography is constituted and how it distributes knowledge under new conditions through concrete institutions.

Keywords

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ART HISTORY; CAPITALISM; INSTITUTION; POST-COMMUNISM; SLOVAKIA

• Publisher: Institute of History of Art, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: ARS
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 56 – 66

Contributors

author

Mária Orišková

• Katedra teórie a dejín umenia, Vysoká škola výtvarných umení, Hviezdoslavovo nám. 18, 814 37 Bratislava, Slovak Republic