Shona Kallestrup publishes the open-access edited volume 'Periodization in the Art Historiographies of Central and East Europe'
This collection of essays investigates how art historians writing about Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries engaged with periodization. With the ideological project of nation-building at the heart of much of their writing, it examines how discourses around periodization engaged with identity construction. Central to its approach is a transnational exploration of how the art histories of the region not only interacted with established Western periodizations but also resonated and ‘entangled’ with each other in their efforts to overcome the centre-periphery paradigm and refine, ignore or hybridize Western models. The book demonstrates that the concept of periodization is far from neutral or strictly descriptive and that its use in art history needs to be reconsidered.