Gastwissenschaftler*innen am Institut für Kunstgeschichte

Dr. Marie Rakusanová

Univerzita Karlova v Praze in Prag (Tschechien):

Doc. PhDr. Marie Rakušanová, Ph.D. is an associate professor at Department of History of Art at Charles University in Prague since 2011. She received a Ph.D. in Art History from Charles University, Prague (2006). She pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Dresden (2004-2005). She was a curator of modern art in the Gallery of the capital city, Prague (2002-2009). In 2001 she studied at the University of Dortmund.

Expressionism and Cubism in Bohemia. A Transnational Tale of Other Modernisms (21. – 24. März 2022)

In the lecture / seminar we will look at artistic transfer between East and West from Eastern perspective. Selected case studies will expose the strategies of creating Western canon and provide tools to help us analyze the artistic expressions beyond canonical categories – the other modernisms.

We will explore diverse art historical interpretations of the allegedly new type of representation in Cubist painting (Semiotics, Gestalt Psychology, Iconology, Anthropology etc.) and apply the critical approach to the traditional art historical hierarchies We will focus on new geographical framing of history of modernism and on decentering the traditional concept of European avant-garde.