‘The Return of the Orient oder Rom’. Review of: Orient oder Rom? History and Reception of a Historiographical Myth (1901-1970) edited by Ivan Foletti and Francesco Lovino, Roma: Viella and Masaryk University, 2018

Abstract

This review traces the expansion of the 1901 Orient oder Rom Debate launched over a century ago by Viennese art historians as an unresolved art historical and historiographical question that has become increasingly more relevant to our interdisciplinary and globalized art historical methods and subjects.

Keywords

• art historiography
• czechoslovakia
• iran
• orient oder rom
• orient
• riegl
• rome
• strzygowski