Istoriografia interbelică privitoare la imaginile istorice ale orașelor actualei Românii
Interwar Historiography about Historical Images of Nowadays Romanian Towns

Summary/Abstract: In relation to historical images of towns from nowadays Romania, exhibitions catalogues and repertories have been printed, articles about prints, generally, have been written, few in the early part of the 20th century, especially during the interwar period. Most of these works were concerned about artists, parti¬cu¬larly those who worked in the 18th century or in the 19th century and only sometimes were also about the images made by those artists. Artists of earlier centuries were not analyzed in the interwar Romanian historio¬graphy, although images made by them have often been published and the works in which the images were printed were (partly) known. Images of towns can be found inside works that deal with some thematically or geographically narrowed topic of urban history, being only mentioned not truly valorised. There are works that use these images in texts of completely different topic, and, finally, there are views of towns used just to enrich the story.Historians have proved themselves conservative, preferring the political and economical information. When, however, they used images, more often they have reproduced them without commentaries. If, however, images were discussed in the text, they were not involved in a proper analysis, but destined only to illustrate a conclusion which was reached exclusively by using other sources.From the impressive quantity of information about artists, their journeys and views, this study will make reference only to details that have direct connection with representations of towns in present-day Romania (not the one from the interwar period).

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