Art History and Criticism

Summary This article analyses Lithuanian landscape photography that reflects the cultural landscape of the 20th century, revealing not only the natural phenomena of the land, but also the historical development of the country, social memory and national identity. Landscape photographs are abundant with cultural codes implicated in visual structures of landscapes, which are read and distinguished with the help of the palimpsest model. An interdisciplinary methodological approach is applied to the understanding of the functioning of photography in the spatial and local planes and to the purposeful use of the concepts of place and space , combining the phenomenological insights of humanistic geography, the theory of spatial production of the sociologist Henri Lefebvre, and the art historical analysis of visual texts. This interdisciplinary study introduces the cultural layer that is characteristic of the 20th century landscape, provides a sense of historical time shifts, and clarifies the prevailing stylistic movements in photographic landscapes.

Margarita Matulytė

Art History & Criticism

Lithuanian Landscape Photography of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century: Place Towards Space

立陶宛20世纪风景摄影：从地点到空间

Summary The article is dedicated to the iconography, development and symbolism of the “Rolling up the Sky” scene – a fragment of the complex multi-scene composition of “The Last Judgment” icons. The study based on selected icons of “The Last Judgment” from the 15th–17th centuries originating from the territory of Halychyna (Galicia) in the West of Ukraine and from the modern territories of Poland and Slovakia. Evolution of the “Rolling up the Sky” motif and traced changes in the compositions of the “Last Judgment” icons from 15th and 16th–17th centuries determine the novelty of the article. The motif’s composition in the icons of the 15th century is characterised by its simplicity and minimalism, on the other hand, since the 16th century, the scene has been actively developed, and new elements appear in it. An important new feature of the “Rolling up the Sky” scene from 16th century is depiction of the zodiac symbols: four Ukrainian icons of “The Last Judgment” dated to the 16th century with depictions of the zodiac symbols are analysed. Evolution of the symbolic image of God the Father, or Ancient of Days from the formal symbolic depiction as shining disc to the image of grey-haired old man is traced.

Andriy Lesiv

Depicting the Beginning of the World’s End: Iconography and Development of the “Rolling Up the Sky” Scene in the Ukrainian Icons of “the Last Judgment” of the 15th–17th Centuries

描绘世界末日的开端：15至17世纪乌克兰“末日审判”圣像中“卷起天空”场景的图像学与发展

Summary Lithuanian art studies as an independent branch of science began to take shape in the First Republic of Lithuania between year 1918 and 1940. During 22 years in a multinational free state, it followed a winding path of mastery, professionalism, and the formation of a critic’s thought. However, if the origins, development, and forms of interwar Lithuanian art studies already are being explored, the Jewish art studies are still waiting for its first investigations. The purpose of this article is to broaden the scope of Lithuanian art research by incorporating the layers of interwar Jewish art studies conducted in the Yiddish language. Using the combined methodology of research as method of source studies, the aspects of social history of art and the comparative method, the Jewish art studies were analysed as a specific phenomenon which functioned alongside Lithuanian art studies. Throughout this research, over 1,000 Yiddish publications were reviewed to find the answers to the never previously discussed questions – how many Jewish art historians and critics contributed articles to the Yiddish press, what kind and quality of publications about Jewish art were featured, what aspects of Jewish art, artists, and society did Jewish art critics emphasise, and what kind of relationship existed among art critics, artists and public. The article also encompasses the short biographies of the most prominent Jewish authors in the field of art criticism.

Vilma Gradinskaitė

Jewish Art Studies in the Lithuanian Yiddish Press of the Interwar Period (1918–1940)

立陶宛战间期意第绪语报刊中的犹太艺术研究（1918-1940）

Summary This article deals with the ‘primitivist’ sources of European modern art, with a focus on Eastern European artists, including some who later developed their careers in the West. These artists are regarded as atypical but relevant cases of modernist legacies, yet their contribution is less studied because of their non-Western European backgrounds. Their early artistic careers were influenced by the local folk and naïve style and motifs of their rural homelands, but they later transmuted their ‘primitivist style’, adopting the fashionable exotic, mostly African, motifs of the Western modernist schools when they moved to the West (typically, France), connected themselves with the modernist movement and received recognition. Unlike the perspective usually adopted by art criticism, this article suggests a heritage studies approach: it firstly conceptualises and considers how one type of heritage primitivism is subsumed to another in this complex artistic formation, and then problematises this dissonant legacy of their work. It is argued that in the field of cultural heritage debate, we need to extend the concept of dissonant heritage to discuss the dual concept of local/exotic heritage, while critically reassessing the uses of primitivism in its authenticist vs. assimilationist ideological intentions.

Șerban Văetişi

A Challenge to Local Primitivism in Eastern European Cultures: the African ‘Exotic Heritage’ in Modern Art

东欧文化中的地方原始主义挑战：现代艺术中的非洲“异域遗产”

Rasutė Žukienė

Exhibition Review: on the Verge of A Virtual Breakthrough. Thoughts at the End of the International Typography Biennial “Travelling Letters ‘23: Holograma”

展览评论：虚拟突破的边缘。国际字体双年展“旅行字母‘23：全息图”尾声的思考

Summary This study examines for the first time the relationships with music, family musical traditions, and their importance to all family members – but especially to the composer and painter Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875–1911) – of the two generations of the Čiurlionis family who lived in Druskininkai since the 19th century. Also, for the first time, this study explores the histories of musical instruments belonging to the Čiurlionis. Near Druskininkai, at the church in the village of Kabeliai, an instrument was discovered on which Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis’ father Konstantinas had played, and archival work was carried out to find supporting evidence. The sources found confirmed the hypothesis held by the author of the article that the church organ in Kabeliai indeed was the instrument used by Konstantinas Čiurlionis, the organist and father of Čiurlionis. It is likely that the future artist and composer Mikalojus Konstantinas also had contact with this instrument. The history of Kabeliai and the discovery of the organ inspired the study of the histories of all musical instruments (both surviving and lost) belonging to the Čiurlionis family and special attention was paid to the exhibits of the M. K. Čiurlionis House-Museum. This article publishes for the first time the authentic memories collected by the author of this work, describing the acquisition histories of the mentioned house-museum exhibits. The result of the research is new facts about music-making in the Čiurlionis household, supplemented, refined, or reconstructed histories of musical instruments used by the Čiurlionis family. Twelve musical instruments were found and described during the study. It was revealed that the Čiurlionis family paid great attention to musical instruments and their quality. Pianos from famous companies in their not very wealthy homes testify that music here was not only educational but also had clear professional ambitions to play classical music and create original (their own) music. The Čiurlionis family was united by the method of learning to play by ear, and the conscious continuation of this family musical tradition is evident in our times at the “Summer of Piano Music in Druskininkai” festival.

Aušra Česnulevičienė

Music-Making and Musical Instruments in the Čiurlionis Family Environment

Čiurlion斯家族环境中的音乐创作与乐器

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Lithuanian Landscape Photography of the 20^th Century: Place Towards Space

Depicting the Beginning of the World’s End: Iconography and Development of the “Rolling Up the Sky” Scene in the Ukrainian Icons of “the Last Judgment” of the 15th–17th Centuries

Jewish Art Studies in the Lithuanian Yiddish Press of the Interwar Period (1918–1940)

A Challenge to Local Primitivism in Eastern European Cultures: the African ‘Exotic Heritage’ in Modern Art

Exhibition Review: on the Verge of A Virtual Breakthrough. Thoughts at the End of the International Typography Biennial “Travelling Letters ‘23: Holograma”

Depicting the Beginning of the World’s End: Iconography and Development of the “Rolling Up the Sky” Scene in the Ukrainian Icons of “the Last Judgment” of the 15th–17th Centuries

Jewish Art Studies in the Lithuanian Yiddish Press of the Interwar Period (1918–1940)

A Challenge to Local Primitivism in Eastern European Cultures: the African ‘Exotic Heritage’ in Modern Art

Exhibition Review: on the Verge of A Virtual Breakthrough. Thoughts at the End of the International Typography Biennial “Travelling Letters ‘23: Holograma”

Music-Making and Musical Instruments in the Čiurlionis Family Environment

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Lithuanian Landscape Photography of the 20th Century: Place Towards Space

Depicting the Beginning of the World’s End: Iconography and Development of the “Rolling Up the Sky” Scene in the Ukrainian Icons of “the Last Judgment” of the 15th–17th Centuries

Jewish Art Studies in the Lithuanian Yiddish Press of the Interwar Period (1918–1940)

A Challenge to Local Primitivism in Eastern European Cultures: the African ‘Exotic Heritage’ in Modern Art

Exhibition Review: on the Verge of A Virtual Breakthrough. Thoughts at the End of the International Typography Biennial “Travelling Letters ‘23: Holograma”

Depicting the Beginning of the World’s End: Iconography and Development of the “Rolling Up the Sky” Scene in the Ukrainian Icons of “the Last Judgment” of the 15th–17th Centuries

Jewish Art Studies in the Lithuanian Yiddish Press of the Interwar Period (1918–1940)

A Challenge to Local Primitivism in Eastern European Cultures: the African ‘Exotic Heritage’ in Modern Art

Exhibition Review: on the Verge of A Virtual Breakthrough. Thoughts at the End of the International Typography Biennial “Travelling Letters ‘23: Holograma”

Music-Making and Musical Instruments in the Čiurlionis Family Environment

Lithuanian Landscape Photography of the 20^th Century: Place Towards Space