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Andrzej Turowski
Professor emeritus, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon
L’IMAGINATION AU PO UVOIR:
ART HISTORY IN THE TIMES OF CRISIS, 1960S-1970S
Summary
The present paper is reminiscence and an attempt to reconstruct the intellectual her-
itage of art history as it was practiced at the University of Poznań in the late 1960s
and throughout the 1970s in the context of new developments in cultural theory and
changing research interests. Besides, it includes the author's account of his own aca-
demic work in that period, began in the 1960s and inspired in particular by the year
1968 that brought a social crisis and a cultural revolution, as well as introduced the
element of imagination into academic knowledge and critical thought. The author
draws a wide panorama of intellectual stimuli which contributed to an epistemic and
methodological turn, first in his own scholarly work and then in the work of some
other art historians in Poznań. Those turns opened art history at the University of
Poznań to critical reading of artistic practices approached in relation to other social
practices and subjects of power. As a result, four key problems were addressed: ( 1 ) the
position of contemporary art in research and teaching, (2) the necessity to combine
detailed historical studies with critical theoretical reflection, (3) the questioning of
genre boundaries and ontological statuses of the objects of study and the semantic