Jiří Roháček, Lubomír Slavíček (eds.)
This collective publication deals with selected themes relating to inventories – a traditional and widely-used source for art-historical research. It covers a time span ranging from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. The work is not only concerned with presenting and interpreting specific examples, but also attempts to place the phenomenon of inventories in a broader cultural, social, and political context. It aims to show how the genesis and idea of compiling inventories is linked to more general changes in the way society functions and how the increased interest in classifying and cataloguing in certain eras is related to the philosophical attitudes of the time or to changes in certain social connections. The work also tries to define the concept of inventories from the viewpoint of art history and archives and to present possible ways of using them for research. In addition, it also takes into consideration other sources of a similar type and their informative value.
First edition, in Czech with German summary and English annotations, 175 pages, black and white illustrations, Prague 2018
ISBN: 978-80-88283-03-4
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