PROBLEMATIC TERMINOLOGY IN A TENTATIVE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY FOR THE VISUAL CULTURE OF THE BALKANS
PROBLEMATIC TERMINOLOGY IN A TENTATIVE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY FOR THE VISUAL CULTURE OF THE BALKANS

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to highlight and briefly discuss some of the most problematic terms and concepts that recur in art historiography: for example, the words Byzantine, post-Byzantine, Eastern, Western and Local. These concepts are used in a misleading way not only by American and Western European authors, but also by Eastern and South-Eastern European ones: in fact, the “Balkan” art historiography based itself on the Western-European one, adopting its periodisation, terminology and interpretative framework, which led to a number of methodological problems that researchers are now trying to identify, discuss and, if possible, solve.

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