Art History & Criticism
Datos de la Revista
| Tipo | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Editorial | De Gruyter (DE) |
| ISSN | 1822-4555 / 1822-4547 |
| Scopus | 21101030127 |
| OpenAlex | S4210187664 |
| MAG | 4210187664 |
| Sitio web | https://api.elsevier.com/content/serial/title/issn/1822-4555 |
| Total de publicaciones | 23 |
| Periodo de cobertura | 2015 - 2025 |
| País | LT |
| Idioma | EN |
| Acceso | Open Access • OA Diamante |
| Indexación | Indexada en DOAJ • Indexada en Scopus |
| SJR | 0.115 (Q3) |
| SNIP | 0.267 |
| CiteScore | 0.2 |
| Participación femenina en la autoría | 100.0% |
Art History & Criticism is a humanities field that can have regular, though not central, intersection with social anthropology, particularly visual anthropology or studies of material culture and aesthetics. It falls under the broader cultural studies umbrella
History · Museology · Visual Arts and Performing Arts · Architecture, Modernity, and Design · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Artistic and Creative Research · Cinema and Media Studies · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Digital Media and Visual Art
Positioning the Creative Work of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis in Modern Art History
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875–1911) is the Lithuanian artist probably most frequently presented to the international public. Since the 1990s, when the political and cultural situation in Lithuania changed, his paintings have been constantly showcased in various museums and galleries around the world, in both solo and group exhibitions mostly dedicated to art movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. However, these exhibitions…
Enstatic Drawing and Ecological Culture Within Collaboration
This article analyses several artworks applied as cases within current research (addressed as cases later in the article) by artists Marija Griniuk (LT), Jiří Kovanda (CZ), Darja Lukjanenko (UA), Jan Pfeiffer (CZ), and the curator Lenka Sýkorová (CZ) within the theme of embodied drawing. This study builds on diverse backgrounds and education traditions within drawing as a medium in the art academy environments of Ukraine, Lithuania, and the Czech…
Endangered Colour Traditions in Lithuanian Interior Design
Colours – and colour combinations – are important considerations for architects, decorators, building owners, residents and visitors. Colour presents a complex issue in discussion and negotiation in the architectural design process, and aesthetic disagreements often arise due to different viewpoints. The object of discussion here is endangered traditional colour schemes in Lithuanian interior design, in which the collective cultural approach incl…
Artist Migration and Cultural Transfer in Opposing Political Systems
Cultural communication channels were open between Lithuanian diaspora communities in the Western world, particularly the United States of America (USA), and Soviet Lithuania during the Cold War. Cultural transfers took place from the West to the East. This is an intriguing yet understudied area of art history concerning Lithuanian migration and diaspora. The aim of this article is therefore to discuss the peculiarities of the transatlantic migrat…
Virtual Materiality
The article analyses intersecting points between Aby Warburg’s theory of memory and Gilles Deleuze’s concept of virtuality. This study aims to supplement Warburg’s interpretations by Giorgio Agamben, Georges Didi-Huberman, Philippe-Alain Michaud, and other scholars who rely on poststructuralist theories. These ideas highlight several aspects of the problematic field in contemporary art history, including criticism of traditional art research meth…
External Digital Activity of Museums During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic forced the world to a halt. In order to ensure the health and safety of society, many facilities had to transfer their functionality to the digital sphere, or at least enhance their digital capabilities. Museums were no exception – the inability to allow visitors to gather in person at exhibitions meant that communication with the audience as well as educational activities had to develop through digital forms. Between spring…
International Cooperation Programme for the Preservation of Ukrainian Cultural Heritage in the Context of Armed Conflict
The research examines possible ways of preserving cultural heritage sites in the context of military conflict in the example of the escalating situation in Ukraine (from March 2014 to 2025), and provides recommendations for creating an infrastructure that will preserve cultural property for future generations in the event of war or natural disaster. The article analyses the experience of international cooperation on the preservation and digitisat…
The Significance of Sculpture in Antanas Vivulskis’ Architectural Projects
Antanas Vivulskis’ (1877–1919) work in architecture is appreciated for his innovative, courageous explorations, the first manifestations of modernism in Lithuanian sacral architecture, and his influence on its further development. The article analyses Vivulskis’ work, laying a deeper focus on the significance of sculpture in his not-abundant architectural projects. The research includes an iconographic and formal investigation and a comparative m…
Holocaust Memory in Dialogue
This paper examines “Out of Darkness”, an immersive exhibition by Jenny Kagan, which presents the story of her parents, who survived the Holocaust in Kaunas. Through a carefully curated interplay of historical narratives, personal artefacts, and scenographic installations, Kagan constructs a space where memory is not merely recalled but actively performed and reconstructed. The exhibition reception provoked a wide range of emotional responses fro…
Lithuanian Actors’ Studio in Moscow
The article presents the strategies of the soviet regime that were used to colonise Lithuania and to politically indoctrinate Lithuanian post-war artists from 1947 to 1952. The first strategy was related to the establishment of new soviet drama in theatres, but it proved less effective compared to the second one, that is the indoctrination of young artists by sending them to study at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts in Moscow (also known as …
Conflicts of the heritage
The article focuses on the process of defining the value of the immovable heritage of Kaunas downtown (Naujamiestis) area. This urban landscape is protected by the national law of Lithuania. However, the official value of the site also includes 45 buildings marked with European heritage label (EHL). Besides, there are aspirations to inscript modern architecture of Kaunas on the UNESCO World heritage list. The main objective of the article is to d…
Representation of "the Other" in the theatre journalism during the first Lithuanian independence
The article discusses the notion of the Other as it reveals itself through the content of the Lithuanian press media in the time period between 1926 and 1940. Articles describing the performances of the Lithuanian National Theatre are discussed. The content of these articles shows that Russian artists working in independent Lithuania were considered as a dangerous Other who exploits Lithuania ideologically and economically. Although such artists …
Parents‘ Room” by Aurelija Maknytė as a time image
Gilles’io Deleuze’o sąvoka „laikovaizdis“ (angl. image temps) tinka mąstant apie meno kūrinius, jungiančius objektus iš skirtingų laiko sluoksnių į erdvines instaliacijas – projektus, kurių galutinį ir idealų variantą turi susikurti pats žiūrovas. Tokia paroda įgyvendinama tarsi performansas, išklibinantis sąvokų opozicijas ir paskatinantis savikūros procesus. Šiame straipsnyje, pasitelkiant „laikovaizdžio“ sąvoką ir Erikos Fischer-Lichte perform…
Facets of proto modern photography
The wide array of artistic and technological innovations in early modern photography at the beginning of the twentieth century combined historical mediums and approaches with new media and technologies in the mainstream of modern art. A diverse generation of multidisciplinary artists began to combine photographic practices with other art disciplines and skills, setting the stage to the new century for contemporary art practices around the world a…
Rivers as part of the mdernization process in Kaunas (Lithuania) between WWI and WWII
Recreation, leisure and entertainment have become important elements of the European urban culture long time ago. Places where nature and urban environment meet together have always been identified as comfortable. Thus, it is not surprising that the city parks, or even more, the beaches become a desirable part of the city’s image. Kaunas city is not an exception, here the initiatives of the revitalization of the riverbanks have become a recent ce…
Art in exile
The point of this article is to distinguish and characterize the waves of migration and departures by Lithuanian and Litvak artists that periodically took place in Lithuania since the middle of the nineteenth century, and to discuss artists’ experiences after they had left Lithuania. Artist migrations, moving to art centers is a part of European artists’ life. The artist profession throughout the ages has been considered to be inseparable from mo…
From populism to pop-archeology
There has been a proliferation of studies on popular culture (or vacillating terms such as mass culture, culture for the masses, culture industry, media culture) that interpret/investigate the popular as cultural construction – something ‘staged’ rather than ‘natural’ or ‘given’. According to Nestor Garcia Canclini, three currents play the major role in this ‘theatricalization’ of the popular: folklore (as invented traditions), the culture indust…
Completing (Public) Spheres
The article deals with two interconnected issues: the issue of theatre interacting with the media and digital network, and the problem of theatre functioning as a public sphere. Both questions are addressed by the analysis of three case studies from contemporary Baltic theatre: two productions of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” staged by Lithuanian director Jonas Vaitkus in 2011 and Latvian director Alvis Hermanis in 2013, and the politic…
Dialogical Aesthetics as the Method of Community Art
This article aims to examine the changes in concept, development and practices of community art in the Western culture from the end of 20th century to the beginning of 21st century, and based on theory of dialogical aesthetics by Grant H. Kester as well as using methodical examples of practicing artists, such as Jeanne van Heeswijk and the cultural association “Artway of Thinking“ (Stefania Mantovani and Federica Thiene), evaluate cases of commun…
Artistic Protest and (Political) Critique
The article discusses artistic protests and forms of opposition in the democratic society. Taking into account different theoretical approaches, the attempt is made to clarify the notions of artistic protests and (artistic) political critique in the field of Lithuanian art research. The attention is paid to the neoliberal political consensus and its opposition. The categories such as strike, protest and disobedience are related not to more or les…
Collective Narratives
Community-based theatre is not only an integral part of contemporary theatre. This specific theatrical movement belongs to the wider field of such art practices, in which the participation of the community and community involvement into artistic process is considered to be the most important creative condition. Community-based theatre is an effective means for communities to share collective stories, get involved into social and political dialogu…
The Aspect of Play and Wellness in The Genesis of Modern Resort
In the history of the development of Lithuanian resort, one of the most important periods was Interwar. The changes of resorts were related to the formation of modern leisure tradition during this period. The modernist ideas, such as light and higiene, characterized the leisure culture and resort environment at the time. The article analyses the most important and two biggest Lithuanian resorts, Palanga and Birstonas, in the context of two period…
Communal Memory in Contemporary Art Projects
One of the most important topics that arise in many art projects based on the aesthetic of participation is communal history and memory. This article reveals the origins of the role communities play in contemporary culture, discusses the causes of the current “memory boom”, and evaluates the significance of memory culture in the nurture of civic society and creation of communities’ collective consciousness. Moreover, the article discusses the dua…
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Completing (Public) Spheres
The article deals with two interconnected issues: the issue of theatre interacting with the media and digital network, and the problem of theatre functioning as a public sphere. Both questions are addressed by the analysis of three case studies from contemporary Baltic theatre: two productions of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” staged by Lithuanian director Jonas Vaitkus in 2011 and Latvian director Alvis Hermanis in 2013, and the politic…
Dialogical Aesthetics as the Method of Community Art
This article aims to examine the changes in concept, development and practices of community art in the Western culture from the end of 20th century to the beginning of 21st century, and based on theory of dialogical aesthetics by Grant H. Kester as well as using methodical examples of practicing artists, such as Jeanne van Heeswijk and the cultural association “Artway of Thinking“ (Stefania Mantovani and Federica Thiene), evaluate cases of commun…
Artistic Protest and (Political) Critique
The article discusses artistic protests and forms of opposition in the democratic society. Taking into account different theoretical approaches, the attempt is made to clarify the notions of artistic protests and (artistic) political critique in the field of Lithuanian art research. The attention is paid to the neoliberal political consensus and its opposition. The categories such as strike, protest and disobedience are related not to more or les…
Collective Narratives
Community-based theatre is not only an integral part of contemporary theatre. This specific theatrical movement belongs to the wider field of such art practices, in which the participation of the community and community involvement into artistic process is considered to be the most important creative condition. Community-based theatre is an effective means for communities to share collective stories, get involved into social and political dialogu…
The Aspect of Play and Wellness in The Genesis of Modern Resort
In the history of the development of Lithuanian resort, one of the most important periods was Interwar. The changes of resorts were related to the formation of modern leisure tradition during this period. The modernist ideas, such as light and higiene, characterized the leisure culture and resort environment at the time. The article analyses the most important and two biggest Lithuanian resorts, Palanga and Birstonas, in the context of two period…
Communal Memory in Contemporary Art Projects
One of the most important topics that arise in many art projects based on the aesthetic of participation is communal history and memory. This article reveals the origins of the role communities play in contemporary culture, discusses the causes of the current “memory boom”, and evaluates the significance of memory culture in the nurture of civic society and creation of communities’ collective consciousness. Moreover, the article discusses the dua…
Conflicts of the heritage
The article focuses on the process of defining the value of the immovable heritage of Kaunas downtown (Naujamiestis) area. This urban landscape is protected by the national law of Lithuania. However, the official value of the site also includes 45 buildings marked with European heritage label (EHL). Besides, there are aspirations to inscript modern architecture of Kaunas on the UNESCO World heritage list. The main objective of the article is to d…
Representation of "the Other" in the theatre journalism during the first Lithuanian independence
The article discusses the notion of the Other as it reveals itself through the content of the Lithuanian press media in the time period between 1926 and 1940. Articles describing the performances of the Lithuanian National Theatre are discussed. The content of these articles shows that Russian artists working in independent Lithuania were considered as a dangerous Other who exploits Lithuania ideologically and economically. Although such artists …
Parents‘ Room” by Aurelija Maknytė as a time image
Gilles’io Deleuze’o sąvoka „laikovaizdis“ (angl. image temps) tinka mąstant apie meno kūrinius, jungiančius objektus iš skirtingų laiko sluoksnių į erdvines instaliacijas – projektus, kurių galutinį ir idealų variantą turi susikurti pats žiūrovas. Tokia paroda įgyvendinama tarsi performansas, išklibinantis sąvokų opozicijas ir paskatinantis savikūros procesus. Šiame straipsnyje, pasitelkiant „laikovaizdžio“ sąvoką ir Erikos Fischer-Lichte perform…
Facets of proto modern photography
The wide array of artistic and technological innovations in early modern photography at the beginning of the twentieth century combined historical mediums and approaches with new media and technologies in the mainstream of modern art. A diverse generation of multidisciplinary artists began to combine photographic practices with other art disciplines and skills, setting the stage to the new century for contemporary art practices around the world a…
Rivers as part of the mdernization process in Kaunas (Lithuania) between WWI and WWII
Recreation, leisure and entertainment have become important elements of the European urban culture long time ago. Places where nature and urban environment meet together have always been identified as comfortable. Thus, it is not surprising that the city parks, or even more, the beaches become a desirable part of the city’s image. Kaunas city is not an exception, here the initiatives of the revitalization of the riverbanks have become a recent ce…
Art in exile
The point of this article is to distinguish and characterize the waves of migration and departures by Lithuanian and Litvak artists that periodically took place in Lithuania since the middle of the nineteenth century, and to discuss artists’ experiences after they had left Lithuania. Artist migrations, moving to art centers is a part of European artists’ life. The artist profession throughout the ages has been considered to be inseparable from mo…
From populism to pop-archeology
There has been a proliferation of studies on popular culture (or vacillating terms such as mass culture, culture for the masses, culture industry, media culture) that interpret/investigate the popular as cultural construction – something ‘staged’ rather than ‘natural’ or ‘given’. According to Nestor Garcia Canclini, three currents play the major role in this ‘theatricalization’ of the popular: folklore (as invented traditions), the culture indust…
Positioning the Creative Work of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis in Modern Art History
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875–1911) is the Lithuanian artist probably most frequently presented to the international public. Since the 1990s, when the political and cultural situation in Lithuania changed, his paintings have been constantly showcased in various museums and galleries around the world, in both solo and group exhibitions mostly dedicated to art movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. However, these exhibitions…
Enstatic Drawing and Ecological Culture Within Collaboration
This article analyses several artworks applied as cases within current research (addressed as cases later in the article) by artists Marija Griniuk (LT), Jiří Kovanda (CZ), Darja Lukjanenko (UA), Jan Pfeiffer (CZ), and the curator Lenka Sýkorová (CZ) within the theme of embodied drawing. This study builds on diverse backgrounds and education traditions within drawing as a medium in the art academy environments of Ukraine, Lithuania, and the Czech…
Endangered Colour Traditions in Lithuanian Interior Design
Colours – and colour combinations – are important considerations for architects, decorators, building owners, residents and visitors. Colour presents a complex issue in discussion and negotiation in the architectural design process, and aesthetic disagreements often arise due to different viewpoints. The object of discussion here is endangered traditional colour schemes in Lithuanian interior design, in which the collective cultural approach incl…
Artist Migration and Cultural Transfer in Opposing Political Systems
Cultural communication channels were open between Lithuanian diaspora communities in the Western world, particularly the United States of America (USA), and Soviet Lithuania during the Cold War. Cultural transfers took place from the West to the East. This is an intriguing yet understudied area of art history concerning Lithuanian migration and diaspora. The aim of this article is therefore to discuss the peculiarities of the transatlantic migrat…
Virtual Materiality
The article analyses intersecting points between Aby Warburg’s theory of memory and Gilles Deleuze’s concept of virtuality. This study aims to supplement Warburg’s interpretations by Giorgio Agamben, Georges Didi-Huberman, Philippe-Alain Michaud, and other scholars who rely on poststructuralist theories. These ideas highlight several aspects of the problematic field in contemporary art history, including criticism of traditional art research meth…
External Digital Activity of Museums During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic forced the world to a halt. In order to ensure the health and safety of society, many facilities had to transfer their functionality to the digital sphere, or at least enhance their digital capabilities. Museums were no exception – the inability to allow visitors to gather in person at exhibitions meant that communication with the audience as well as educational activities had to develop through digital forms. Between spring…
International Cooperation Programme for the Preservation of Ukrainian Cultural Heritage in the Context of Armed Conflict
The research examines possible ways of preserving cultural heritage sites in the context of military conflict in the example of the escalating situation in Ukraine (from March 2014 to 2025), and provides recommendations for creating an infrastructure that will preserve cultural property for future generations in the event of war or natural disaster. The article analyses the experience of international cooperation on the preservation and digitisat…
The Significance of Sculpture in Antanas Vivulskis’ Architectural Projects
Antanas Vivulskis’ (1877–1919) work in architecture is appreciated for his innovative, courageous explorations, the first manifestations of modernism in Lithuanian sacral architecture, and his influence on its further development. The article analyses Vivulskis’ work, laying a deeper focus on the significance of sculpture in his not-abundant architectural projects. The research includes an iconographic and formal investigation and a comparative m…
Holocaust Memory in Dialogue
This paper examines “Out of Darkness”, an immersive exhibition by Jenny Kagan, which presents the story of her parents, who survived the Holocaust in Kaunas. Through a carefully curated interplay of historical narratives, personal artefacts, and scenographic installations, Kagan constructs a space where memory is not merely recalled but actively performed and reconstructed. The exhibition reception provoked a wide range of emotional responses fro…
Lithuanian Actors’ Studio in Moscow
The article presents the strategies of the soviet regime that were used to colonise Lithuania and to politically indoctrinate Lithuanian post-war artists from 1947 to 1952. The first strategy was related to the establishment of new soviet drama in theatres, but it proved less effective compared to the second one, that is the indoctrination of young artists by sending them to study at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts in Moscow (also known as …