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What We Can Do About Art History: the Russian Case

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Stepan Vaneyan
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Stepan Vaneyan
Available Online 19 March 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200316.064How to use a DOI?
Keywords
epistemological emergency, science of art as discourse, Russian tradition
Abstract

The academic discipline of ‘science of art’, connected with studying and teaching, has a recognisable discourse, different from ‘pure research’ or ‘popular art history, on the other hand. I propose that Russian traditional ‘science of art’ is one of major problems in humanities we have been facing over the last 100 years. It started to shape at the same time as Kunstwissenschaft, as part of a rise in humanities, sciences and culture in Russia but then its development was impeded; and the truth is we can neither go back or skip the stages which we haven’t gone through. We are practicing a defensive ideology justifying our ignorance of modern theoretical issues of science of art – the ideology of ‘pure art history’, based on the ancient myth of positivism. How can we use and transform the situation of our arrested development? Could there be a methodological lesson? We could start our awakening by problematising our degradation as a sign of a more general hermeneutic situation. Paradoxically, even alienation (‘we are not like others’) together with bragging (‘and we don’t need others’) may actually trigger a meaning-generating process, which would help us to overcome our degradation, – provided that first we would admit to it.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Culture, Education and Economic Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2020)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
19 March 2020
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978-94-6252-931-1
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2352-5398
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10.2991/assehr.k.200316.064How to use a DOI?
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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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