21/10/2025
📢 Call for Papers
The editorial board of Text and Image: Essential Problems in Art History is pleased to announce that the upcoming issue No. 2(22), 2026 will be devoted to political iconography — a methodological framework introduced by Martin Warnke that has profoundly influenced the study of art’s political dimensions.
In the second half of the twentieth century, art historians increasingly explored how images shape, reflect, and challenge power. Warnke’s concept of political iconography opened new perspectives for examining visual strategies of propaganda, representation, and ideology — from Antiquity to the present.
This special issue seeks to revisit and critically reassess political iconography in diverse historical and regional contexts, with particular attention to Central and Eastern Europe.
Suggested topics include:
– the legacy and critique of Martin Warnke’s approach;
– the development of political iconography in Central and Eastern Europe;
– image politics in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern period;
– art and power in totalitarian regimes;
– the potential of political iconography for studying 20th- and 21st-century art.
Abstract deadline: 1 February 2026
Submit to: Illia Levchenko, Special Issue Editor — [email protected]
Full papers (based on accepted abstracts) are due by 1 August 2026.
Detailed author guidelines are available at: https://txim.history.knu.ua/about/submissions
For any inquiries, please contact:
– Illia Levchenko, Managing Editor and Special Issue Editor — [email protected]
– Stefaniia Demchuk, Editor-in-Chief — [email protected]
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Text and image: essential problems in Art History is an international peer-reviewed journal published by Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Established in 2016, the journal promotes dialogue among scholars studying art in its historical and cultural contexts.
Images designed by Dariia Demchenko (with works by Arcimboldo and Abraham Bosse(?)).
