Image, History and Memory: Central and Eastern Europe in a Comparative Perspective

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Michał Haake (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) Piotr Juszkiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

Image, History and Memory

Central and Eastern Europe in a Comparative Perspective

Michał Haake (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland), Piotr Juszkiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

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English

Routledge
25 September 2023

Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; The Cold War; Social & political philosophy; Marxism & Communism; Nationalism

Series: European Remembrance and Solidarity

This book discusses the active relationship among the mechanics of memory, visual practices, and historical narratives.

Reflection on memory and its ties with historical narratives cannot be separated from reflection on the visual and the image as its points of reference which function in time. This volume addresses precisely that temporal aspect of the image, without reducing it to a neutral trace of the past, a mnemotechnical support of memory. As a commemorative device, the image fixes, structures, and crystalizes memory, turning the view of the past into myth. It may, however, also stimulate, transform, and update memory, functioning as a matrix of interpretation and understanding the past. The book questions whether the functioning of the visual matrices of memory can be related to a particular historical and geographical scope, that is, to Central and Eastern Europe, and whether it is possible to find their origin and decide if they are just local and regional or perhaps also Western European and universal. It focuses on the artistic reflection on time and history, in the reconstructions of memory due to change of frontiers and political regimes, as well as endeavours to impose some specific political structure on territories which were complex and mixed in terms of national identity, religion and social composition.

The volume is ideal for students and scholars of memory studies, history and visual studies.

Edited by: Michał Haake (Adam Mickiewicz University Poland), Piotr Juszkiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781032206257
ISBN 10: 103220625X
Series: European Remembrance and Solidarity
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Michał Haake is Professor and art historian at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. His research interests focus on history of European painting from medieval to contemporary art and art history methodology. His publications include Figuralizm Aleksandra Gierymskiego (Aleksander Gierymski’s Figuralism) (2015) and Obraz jako obiektteoretyczny (Image as the Theoretical Object) (as co-editor, 2020). Piotr Juszkiewicz is an art historian and a professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. His publications include From the Bliss of Historiography to the ""Game of Nothing"". Polish Art Criticism of the of the Post-Stalinist ""Thaw"" (2005) and The Shadow of Modernism (2013)."