19-20 May 2023

LITHUANIAN CULTURE RESEARCH INSTITUTE

JURGIS BALTRUŠAITIS 120:
THE FLUIDITY OF ART HISTORY AND IMAGINATION

International Conference 

PROGRAMME

Friday, 19 May 2023

Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Gedimino Ave. 3, Vilnius

10:30 Welcome / Introduction 

11:00–12:00 INTELLECTUAL LEGACIES

Chair: Rasius Makselis, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

Father of Jurgis Baltrušaitis – Jurgis Baltrušaitis 

Inga Vidugirytė-Pakerienė, Vilnius University

Homo ludens. Retouches au Portrait de Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1989)

Jean François Chevrier, National School of Fine Arts, Paris 

12:00–12:30 Discussion and coffee break 

12:30–14:30 COMPARATIVE ART RESEARCH AND THE SOUTH CAUCASUS

Chair: Kristina Mitalaitė, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

Un Moyen Âge «global» au début du XXe s.: Baltrušaitis, Millet et l’art du Caucase

Ioanna Rapti, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris 

Jurgis Baltrušaitis Junior, Premier explorateur objectif du patrimoine sud-Caucasien 

Patrick Donabedian, Aix-Marseille University

To the Question of Collaboration between Toros Toramanian and Jurgis Baltrušaitis

Mariam Manukyan, National Museum-Institute of Architecture after Alexander Tamanyan, Yerevan

Transformation des idées de Strzygowski et de Warburg dans l’histoire de l'art comparée de Baltrušaitis le Jeune

Antanas Andrijauskas, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

14:30–15:30 Discussion and coffee break 

15:30–17:30 THE FANTASTIC IN MEDIEVAL ART: DEFORMITY, CONTINUITY AND SURVIVALS

Chair: Žilvinė Gaižutytė-Filipavičienė, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

Jurgis Baltrušaitis et la sculpture médiévale: regarder, dessiner, imaginer 

Annamaria Ducci, Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara 

Résonnances baltrušaitisiennes à Chartres 

Michel Lefftz, University of Namur

From Breton Calvaries to Lithuanian Chapels. Baltrušaitis and Lithuanian Folk Art, between Art History and Diplomacy 

Raphael Bories, Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean, Marseille

Baltrušaitis’ Laboratory: the Life of Forms and Visionary Worlds

Odeta Žukauskienė, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

17:30–18:00 Discussion and concluding remarks

18:30 Dinner (offered by “Petros Aloyan Foundation”) 

Saturday, 20 May 2023

Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Saltoniškių str. 58, Vilnius

10:00–12:00 

DEPRAVED PERSPECTIVES: ABERRATIONS AND ANAMORPHOSES 

Chair: Odeta Žukauskienė, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

Les Pierres imagées. Geological Life in Baltrušaitis and in Surrealism 

Riccardo Venturi, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Anamorphic Visions. Phantasmagoria and Destruction of the Unified Visible in American Art of the 1960s and 1970s 

Lydie Delahaye, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Anamorphosis as a Principle of Reality. Ontologisation of the Research on Distorted Perspectives of Jurgis Baltrušaitis 

Augustinas Dainys, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas 

Le phénomène de l’anamorphose chez Baltrušaitis et dans ses sources d’origine :

entre l’automate calculé et la nature illusionniste 

Dalia Aleksandravičiūtė, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

12:00–12:30 Discussion and coffee break 

12:30–14:00 DIALOGUES IN ART HISTORY AND THEORY

Chairs: Dalia Aleksandravičiūtė, Ina Kiseliova-El Marassy, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

La Pâtétypie, l’enjeu des images du hasard 

Jeanette Zwingenberger, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

The Concept of Virtuality at the Intersection of Philosophy and Art History: Baltrušaitis and Deleuze Aistė Žvinytė, Vilnius Academy of Arts

The Conception of Metamorphosis in André Malraux’s Comparative Studies of Art 

Žilvinė Gaižutytė-Filipavičienė, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

“Ecce Corporeum” – Saint Wilgefortis and the Vision of the Embodied Unity 

Magdalena Maciudzińska-Kamczycka, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń 

14:00–14:30 Discussion and coffee break

14:30–15:30 PARALLELS BETWEEN TWO: SENIOR AND JUNIOR BALTRUŠAITIS

(the panel session in Lithuanian) 

Chair: Antanas Andrijauskas, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

150e anniversaire du poète et diplomate Jurgis Baltrušaitis

Viktorija Daujotytė, Vilnius University

La prière poétique dans l'œuvre de Baltrušaitis d'un point de vue théologico-philosophique 

Dalia Jakaitė, Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vilnius

15:30 Discussion and concluding remarks

FORMAT:  in-person and online

Join Zoom Meeting at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87932879895?pwd=NUpPeXJ4bDhBUFVqMG1ma3NsUFpkQT09

Meeting ID: 879 3287 9895

INFORMATION: 

www.lkti.lt

CONTACTS:

Odeta Žukauskienė: odeta.zukauskiene@gmail.com

Dalia Aleksandravičiūtė: dalia1kotryna@gmail.com

Attendance free

Programme PDF

E-book of Abstracts PDF