Shifting paths in the study of art in Ukraine

Vol.4,No.4(2024)

Abstract
A significant conference Ukrainian art theory and history at the crossroads of intellectual traditions took place at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv on March 14 and 15, 2024, jointly organized by the Department of Art History at the University and the NGO Centre for Historiography and Theory of Art. This event commemorated the centenary of the death of Hryhorii Pavlutskyi (1861–1924), who held the distinction of being the first professor of art theory and history at the Imperial University of St. Vladimir in Kyiv. The conference considered Pavlutskyi’s role as an art historian and theorist and examined the major directions and trends in Ukrainian art theory and history from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, as well as the current state of art history and theory in Ukraine. This paper assesses the significance of Pavlutskyi as an art historian, and also as one of the important actors in the history of Ukraine in the early 1920s. It then focuses on three main themes of the reviewed conference: (1) intellectual exchange; (2) the influence of various political ideologies on Ukrainian art historical writing and (3) the juxtaposition of art history and the Ukrainian concept of mystetstvoznavsto (art scholarship) as two different disciplines.

Keywords:
Ukraine; art theory; intellectual history; Ukrainian historiography of art history; museum studies; Eastern European studies
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