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BAHC 2016 - Jolita MULEVIČIŪTĖ (LT). 19th Century Lithuanian Art

3rd Conference of Baltic Art Historians REPRESENTING ART HISTORY IN THE BALTIC COUNTRIES: EXPERIENCES AND PROSPECTS Riga, 6–8 October 2016 Abstract It would be probably not a mistake to assert that nowadays the 19th century is left on the periphery of Lithuanian art historiography. The research into this period, which was at the peak in the 1990s, is now overshadowed by the studies of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, contemporary and Soviet art. It seems that for some time the situation of the inter-war art history was much the same. However, recently growing attention to architecture, mass culture and gender aspects of Lithuanian art of the 1920s and 1930s has been observed. Meanwhile, the majority of Lithuanian art historians do not consider the 19th century as a distinct epoch to be conceptualised. It is mostly mentioned when scrutinising more general topics of architecture, church and folk art including the 17th, 18th or 20th centuries as well. It is especially surprising when compared to the intensive research into the 19th century art in the West. Presumably, Lithuanian scientific interests are determined by two-fold reasons. Some of them are related to the actual political and cultural milieu that increases the scholarly concentration on the issues of multiethnicity and diminishes scientific involvement in the history of national identities (while the formation of Lithuanian nationalism was always the main axis of the 19th century historiography). On the other hand, an obstacle to the fundamental research lies in the specificity of the 19th century Lithuanian artistic heritage as such. The art of that period lacks integrity and mature local forms. It causes fragmentation of scholarly outlook and provokes a lot of methodological challenges. The paper based on several examples of recently published works deals with the question whether the study on the 19th century Lithuanian art is possible, and if so, what kind of history it should be and how to write it.