Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe

Sarmatia Europea to Post-Communist Bloc
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-00361-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of the visual in the construction of Europe’s east as a socio-political and cultural entity. This book probes into the discontinuous processes of mapping the eastern European space and imaging the eastern European body. Beginning from the Renaissance maps of Sarmatia Europea, it moves onto the images of women in ethnic dress on the pages of travellers’ reports from the Balkans, to cartoons of children bullied by dictators in the satirical press, to Cold War cartography, and it ends with photos of protesting crowds on contemporary dust jackets.

Studying the eastern European ‘iconosphere’ leads to the engagement with issues central for image studies and visual culture: word and image relationship, overlaps between the codes of othering and self-fashioning, as well as interaction between the diverse modes of production specific to cartography, travel illustrations, caricature, and book cover design.

This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, visual culture, and central Asian, Russian and Eastern European studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murawska-Muthesius, Katarzyna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Pop Art, Minimalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Welcome to Slaka; 2. Mapping Eastern Europe; 3. The Lure of the Ethnic Dress: Eastern Europe in the Traveller’s Gaze; 4. Mr Punch Draws Eastern Europe; 5. The Battle of the Dust Jackets; 6. Farewell to Slaka

Über Autor(innen)

Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius teaches in the Department of History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London. She was Deputy Director of the National Museum in Warsaw.