Table of Contents
PART 1: INTRODUCTION Introduction
1. Linear, Entangled, Anachronic: Periodization and the Shapes of Time in Art History
PART 2: WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BYZANTINE
2. Renaissances in Byzantium and Byzantium in the Renaissance: the International Development of Ideas and Terminology in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Europe
3. From Byzantine to Brâncovenesc: The Periodization of Romanian Art in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
4. Regional Variations of the Byzantine Style. Canonization/Nationalization of Art and Architecture in South-Eastern Europe
5. Bulgarian versus Byzantine: The Unrealized Museum of the Bulgarian Revival and National Style Debates in Architecture ca. 1900
PART 3: OUR ART IS IN TEXTBOOKS
6. Sztuka. Zarys jej dziejów (Art. A Survey of its History, 1872): The Disciplinary and Political Context of Józef Łepkowski’s Survey of Art History
7. German Medievalism and Estonian Contemporaneity: Centre, Periphery and Periodization in the Histories of Baltic and Estonian Art, 1880s–1930s
8. Periodization of Architecture in Croatian Art History: The Case of the ‘Renaissance’ and ‘Transitional’ Styles
PART 4: TRADITION WAS INVENTED BY MODERNITY
9. The European and the National in Imperial Historiography and Periodization of the Russian School of Painting
10. Magmatic Foundations: The Emergence and Crystallization of Early Ideas of Periodization in Polish Painting in the Nineteenth Century
11. Problematizing Periodization: Folk Art, National Narratives and Cultural Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Romanian Art History
12. Beyond the Provincial: Entanglements of Regional Modernism in Interwar Central Europe
PART 5: TURNING POINTS
13. Disaster and Renewal, 1241–42: The Transition from Romanesque to Gothic in the Historiography of Medieval Art in the Kingdom of Hungary
14. Modernism Versus Modernism: Socialist Realism and Its Discontents in Romania