SMArt Talks - Milena Bartlová

17 Oct 2023

The lecture will be held in CZECH language.

ABSTRACT:

In 1986 and 1987, a two-volume publication Chapters from Czech Art History was published, written by a large team of workers at the Institute of Theory and History of Art of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences under the direction of Rudolf Chadraba, Rostislav Švácha and Anděla Horová. The project was, however, primarily the work of Josef Krása, who prepared and led it from the mid-1970s onwards; he died in 1985. Although the file is marked by editorial imperfection, it was published to help support the very existence of the field of art history in this country. Although it had a strong tradition since the mid-19th century, it was now seriously threatened. How did Chapters respond to this situation, what kind of disciplinary identity did it construct, and how do we read it nearly four decades later?

Milena Bartlová, professor at UMPRUM Prague

Milena Bartlová is an art historian who works at UMPRUM ( Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design Crafts in Prague). For several years she also lectured at the Department of Art History in Brno, where she became the first and for a long time the only professor of art history. She deals with a wide range of topics, from medieval art to the historiography and methodology of art history. She publishes professional texts as well as reviews and criticism in art magazines.