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Kapustka, Mateusz (Ed.): Under Shelling: Art Historical Revisions in the Light of the War in Ukraine, Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net, 2025 (2025). https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1327

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ISBN 978-3-98501-240-4 (PDF)
ISBN 978-3-98501-309-8 (Hardcover)

Published

05/06/2025 — Updated on 06/03/2025

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Authors

Mateusz Kapustka (Ed.)

Under Shelling

Art Historical Revisions in the Light of the War in Ukraine

The volume provides insights into the complexity of the historical development of Ukraine's art and cultural landscape in the context of the Russian invasion in 2022. On the one hand, the new visibility of war and the immediacy of artistic response to the tragedy have been addressed. On the other hand, the volume reflects on art historical projections of 19th- and 20th-century imperial, hegemonic narratives in the context of negotiating the cultural heritage and facing the emergence of national or regional museums and collections in Ukraine. Concerning such historiographical instrumentalizations, the essays also address the problem of the acutely endangered and destroyed cultural heritage of the Soviet era.

Mateusz Kapustka is Privatdozent at the Institute of Art History of the University of Zurich, in 2022-23 he was Guest Professor for East European Art History at the Humboldt-University zu Berlin. His research areas include: image conflicts and historical constructions of evidence; art and power (focus Central Europe); anachronism; idolatry, iconoclasm, and image cult.

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Table of Contents
Pages
PDF
Titelei
Contents
V-VI
Julia von Blumenthal
1-3
Julia von Blumenthal
5-7
8-32
I. IMAGES AT WAR – IMAGES OF WAR
Tomasz Kitliński, Paweł Leszkowicz
134-169
II. SITE MEMORY AND VISUAL INVESTIGATION
Mariupol Drama Theater: Iconic Remembrance
215-217
Before 16 March 2022: A Visual Essay
223-235
Reconstructions and Investigations
237-243
III. ART AND HISTORIOGRAPHY IN CONTENTION
Authors’ Notes
435-438
Note on Transliteration and Translation
439
Image Credits
441-443

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