International Conference “Art history and discourse on the centre and periphery ‒ An homage to Ljubo Karaman (1886‒1971)”

Zagreb, 19 – 21 May 2022

Trg bana Jelačića 3/1 (DAZ, UHA)

online stream DPUH YouTube channel

Programme and book of abstracts

Thursday, 19 May 2022

9:30 welcome speech / Zvonko Maković, President of the Croatian Society of Art Historians

9:40 session 1

Magdalena Kunińska

An entangled case of „style” problem in Central-Eastern Europe: between central model and local strategies for self-identification

Alison McQueen

Entangled Interdependence: Paris, French Provinces and Colonies in the mid-nineteenth century

Cristiano Guarneri, Ines Ivić

Different perspectives on the centre-periphery paradigm: Karaman and Castelnuovo-Ginzburg in comparison

Vladimir Peter Goss

Ljubo Karaman and the art of Croatian space

Discussion

11:20 session 2

Katja Mahnič
France Stele (1886-1972), Monument Protection Office in Ljubljana and the Question of Method

Ivan Braut, Krasanka Majer Jurišić
Karaman and Szabo on “descended value” of monuments and preservation of historical character of Šibenik and Rab

Sigrid Brandt
Creative monument preservation and continuing to build on monuments

Discussion

13:40 session 3

Dražen Arbutina 
Peripheral architecture and architecture on the periphery

Konrad Morawski
Art for Polish Magnates or European Aristocrats?

Antonija Mlikota
The architecture, heritage and monuments protection under Fascist government in Zadar

Mariana Pinto dos Santos
The constraints of writing art history in a peripheral dictatorship in the twentieth century – José-Augusto França’s master narrative in Portugal

Discussion

15:20 session 4

Zoi Godosi
Periphery, Province, Borderline: the case of a local “Art World” in Florina (Greece)

Mina Radovanović 
Painting the periphery for the centre: orientalist works by Paja Jovanović created for western audiences

Lidija Merenik 
The local, ethnographic, oriental motif in the folk portraits by Nadežda Petrović and Zora Petrović

Miona Muštra
Inflecting the Canon: teaching national art history to international students

Discussion

17:00 end of Day 1

Friday 20th May

9:20 session 5

Giuseppe Andolina
Center vs periphery in the Stato da Mar: the public architecture and artistic production in the 15th century Eastern Adriatic

Karla Papeš 
What is the centre for the circulation of early modern fortification knowledge?

Laris Borić 
The applicability and the transformative nature of Karaman’s notions of peripheral/provincial in Dalmatian Cinquecento

Petar Strunje
Interpreting mosque to church conversion in Dalmatia

Discussion

11:00 session 6

Angelo Maria Monaco
Refining a vernacular idiom. A focus on 14th and 15th centuries limestone Sculpture in Salento, through the looking glass of Scultura del Cinquecento in Italia meridionale by Francesco Negri Arnoldi

Stephanie Peršić
Karaman’s paradigm through the analysis of sacral iconography of the 17th and 18th centuries on the territory of the Diocese of Poreč and Pula

Beatrice Tanzi
The double “territorialisation/peripheralisation” of the Istrian and Dalmatian dioceses

Jelena Todorović 
The reversal of centre/perifery paradigm in the understanding of the world of Universal Baroque

Discussion

13:20 session 7

Barbara Murovec
Art historians in tumultuous times: the safeguarding of cultural heritage in the province of Ljubljana (1941–1943)

Petar Prelog 
Centre and periphery in the interpretations of Croatian modern art

Petra Šarin
Defining local versions of socially engaged art: Zemlja and Portuguese neorealism

Discussion

14:40 session 8

Nikolina Maraković, Tin Turković
The relevance of Ljubo Karaman’s paradigm in contemporary research of late antique and early medieval heritage in Croatia

Milan Pelc
Illuminations in Glagolitic manuscripts and the art in the periphery

Vanja Stojković
Center and periphery: the sacral portraits of the noble family of Lazar in the Church of st. John the Baptist in Ečka

Anđela Dukić
Between centerand periphery: architectural development of Niš (19-20 century)

Discussion

16:20 conference closing discussion

17:00 end of Day 2

Saturday 21st May

Fieldwork

Zagreb urban identity between centre and periphery

10:00 – 14:00

Meeting point: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Trg Nikole Šubića Zrinskog 11

Moderators: Franko Ćorić, Ljerka Dulibić, Predrag Marković

In accordance with the theme of the conference, the city walking tour will focus on the peripheral role of Zagreb in the Habsburg monarchy and the idea of Zagreb as “Florence of the South Slavs”. The population of Zagreb grew from about 48,000 in 1857 to 769,944according to the last census in 2021. Participants will familiarize with the important historic milestones in the development of the city – its political, economic and cultural significance in the past and possible future perspectives.


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