Presentations by Anna Kelblová
The project Migrating Art Historians has risen from the students and teachers’ experiences at the... more The project Migrating Art Historians has risen from the students and teachers’ experiences at the Department of Art History, Masaryk University, that they have been gathering on French medieval pilgrimage paths for the past five years. What they came to realize is that observing artwork while traveling on foot considerably changes the ability to understand it and makes one study the artwork as an actual event. Of course, behind the process of image creation, there is primarily the intention of a patron and the ability of the artisans. However, it is the pilgrim who – in a particular moment and at a particular place – apprehends and thus possesses the image. Because of this immediate personal contact, the immobile images gain the capacity to enlarge their own visual impact and to retroactively grasp a part of the movement dynamism. That is why a group of twelve students decided to widen their experience as well as to put it into a specific scientific framework and – with the help of modern technology – to transmit it to the wider public.
Teaching Documents by Anna Kelblová
The short documentary movies produced within the project Migrating Art Historians deal with vario... more The short documentary movies produced within the project Migrating Art Historians deal with various topics linked to the phenomenon of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages and today. The films 2 to 5 speak about the different perceptions and intellectual constructions about the Medieval art; about the importance of light in the life of a pilgrim and in the life of an artifact; about the perception of time during the pilgrimage and about the alimentation of a medieval and contemporary pilgrim.
This first documentary movie from the cycle produced within the experimental scientific project "... more This first documentary movie from the cycle produced within the experimental scientific project "Migrating Art Historians". It deals with pilgrimage in different religious traditions, with the sacral and secular aspects of pilgrimage and with the common points and the differences between the medieval and contemporary pilgrimage. For more information about the project: http://www.migratingarthistorians.com/
Books by Anna Kelblová
Is it possible to reconstruct the feeling of a medieval pilgrim walking towards the sacred? No, i... more Is it possible to reconstruct the feeling of a medieval pilgrim walking towards the sacred? No, it is not. And yet, the experimental project Migrating Art Historians sought to delve into this impossibility. Journeying by foot over more than 1500km, twelve modern pilgrims – students and scholars from Masaryk University – reached some of the most impressive artistic monuments of medieval France.
One year later, this book presents their intellectual, human, and art historical theoretical know-how, transformed by the experience of their bodies. In this context, exhausted and activated bodies became instruments asking new questions to medieval artworks and sources. Structured as a walk along pilgrimage routes, this book presents firstly the landscape, followed by liminal zones, before leading the reader inside medieval churches and ultimately towards the sacred. Original scientific art historical research combines with personal engagement. What emerges is the subject confronted with the experience of medieval art.
Uploads
Presentations by Anna Kelblová
Teaching Documents by Anna Kelblová
Books by Anna Kelblová
One year later, this book presents their intellectual, human, and art historical theoretical know-how, transformed by the experience of their bodies. In this context, exhausted and activated bodies became instruments asking new questions to medieval artworks and sources. Structured as a walk along pilgrimage routes, this book presents firstly the landscape, followed by liminal zones, before leading the reader inside medieval churches and ultimately towards the sacred. Original scientific art historical research combines with personal engagement. What emerges is the subject confronted with the experience of medieval art.
One year later, this book presents their intellectual, human, and art historical theoretical know-how, transformed by the experience of their bodies. In this context, exhausted and activated bodies became instruments asking new questions to medieval artworks and sources. Structured as a walk along pilgrimage routes, this book presents firstly the landscape, followed by liminal zones, before leading the reader inside medieval churches and ultimately towards the sacred. Original scientific art historical research combines with personal engagement. What emerges is the subject confronted with the experience of medieval art.