Julia Allerstorfer is an art historian, curator and assistant professor at the Institute of History and Theory of Art at Katholische Privat-Universität Linz. Her teaching and research foci comprise contemporary art in Iran, modern art in Austria, artistic practices in the context of migration, postcolonialism and transculturality, global and entangled art history and transdisciplinary approaches in art history with an emphasis on postcolonial theory.
Karolina Majewska-Güde is a researcher, art historian and curator at the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw. From 2019 to 2021, she worked as an assistant professor at the Institute for the History and Theory of Art at Katholische Privat-Universität Linz and is currently leading a research project on collective artistic women's work under socialism at the University of Warsaw. She is involved in several international collaborative research projects that deal with the rewriting of the art history of East Central Europe from a transnational and feminist perspective.
Monika Leisch-Kiesl is a professor for art history and aesthetics at Katholische Privat-Universität Linz and a curator. She lives and works in Linz (Austria), Basel (Switzerland) and Krakow (Poland). Her recent projects include Tango Osobiste, Cricoteka Krakow (Aug. 2022) and Tango Wielopole, Kantorówka Wielopole (April 2024).

Frontmatter 1
Table of Contents 5
Preface 7
East Central European Art Histories and Austria: Imperial Pasts - Neoliberal Presences - Decolonial Futures: An Introduction 9
Habsburg Scholars and Writings about Romanian Historical Monuments in the Late Nineteenth Century 39
The Quest for Totality: Holistic Concepts in Art Theory in Central Europe aftfter 1900 65
Imagining Czech National Art: The Mánes Association of Fine Artists and Their Path to Success (1898 -1907) 95
Painters of the Empire? The Challenging Representation of Habsburg Bosnia in the Kronprinzenwerk 133
The Expressive Theory of Art: Hans Tietze and the Polish Promoters of National Art 155
"Land und Leute" in the Transnational Space: Recontextualizing Heimatphotographie in Central Europe 187
Shots for Thought: Art (and) History in Bosnia and Herzegovina from a Postcolonial View 211
We Both Love This Piec´ So Much: Walking through the Stairwell at KU Private-University Linz 251
Southern Constellations in Arts and Culture: Some Cases from the Non-Aligned Movement 291
Peripheries of the World Unite! 305
ERSTE Stiftftung: An Ambassador for Central and Southeastern European Culture 325
Post-Socialist Art Histories and the Global Paradigm or, Rethinking Global Art History from the East Central European Semi-Periphery 355
Preliminary Note 384
Hemma Schmutz 385
Sabine Breitwieser 391
Walter Seidl 395
Georg Schöllhammer 401
Short Biographies 413