From Art to Arms: The Rise of Georgian Art History and the Post-War Shift in Soviet Priorities
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Citation | FILIPOVÁ, Alžběta. From Art to Arms: The Rise of Georgian Art History and the Post-War Shift in Soviet Priorities. In WHY HUMANITIES? The Decline and Fall of the Role of Human Sciences in the Euro-Atlantic World. 2024. |
| Description | This paper examines the establishment and early history of the Institute of Georgian Art History within the Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences, founded in February 1941, just a few months before the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Ironically, the Institute was led by Professor Giorgi Chubinashvili, a prominent art historian with German training, and supported by his first assistant, Rene Schmerling, a Georgian-born scholar of German descent. Drawing on and further developing the formalist methodology of Heinrich Wölfflin, the Institute played a crucial role in shaping the historiography of the Georgian nation. |
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