Title in English: Is the Middle Ages modern?. Art, vant-garde and -isms
The Middle Ages and modernity. Are they related? The authors examine selected works of art and architecture (not only) in Prague, Brno, Sofia, Rome, and Yerevan, observing how modern society has transformed and reinterpreted the historical period of the Middle Ages, creating a mythical world into which it has projected its ideologies, anxieties, and traumas. They describe how the theme of the Middle Ages, linked to questions of national identity, found expression in modern architecture, which often served to promote totalitarian ideologies. They also reflect on the visual similarities between the Middle Ages and modernity and show that the aesthetics of aniconic or simplified forms typical of the Middle Ages corresponded to the search of the avant-garde of the first half of the 20th century, which longed for new forms of artistic expression.Readers can delve into the story of the multiple interconnections between the Middle Ages and modernity, which raises the question: To what extent is the Middle Ages we imagine today a product of the modern era?
