Maniura, Robert (2024) The challenge of Kosovo. Art History 47 (3), pp. 462-491. ISSN 0141-6790.
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Abstract
This essay offers a reflection on the vexed position of the pre-modern visual arts in Kosovo which sees medieval monuments under continuing armed guard. The violence which led to this state of affairs is sadly familiar, but this enduring phenomenon attracts little attention. The essay concentrates on the fate of the Serbian royal foundations in the region and suggests that it has important implications for the discipline of art history, whose established tools risk failing to find purchase on the polarised sectarian readings that have been forced on these monuments. The veneration of some of these nominally Christian sites by Muslims of varying ethnicities was well attested in the former Yugoslavia but has not been integrated into their historical study. This paper proposes that the neglect of this experience, which is itself receding into an elusive past, raises questions about art history’s methods and scope.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Robert Maniura |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Aug 2024 15:17 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Nov 2024 01:24 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/53906 |
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