Journal ARS 44 (2011) 2

Ivan GERÁT

Úvod

In the last years, the journal Ars has published – side by side with traditional collections of articles devoted to various topics – several thematically focused numbers. As the editor of this number, I have sought articles, focused on problems of iconography and iconology. This project started from no special definition of these concepts and no ideological bias. Instead of defining a theoretical framework, I have asked well known authors, who have their own explicit or implicit definitions of the terms and their own strategy of using them for various research purposes, to pick up an example of how the concepts might work from their point of view. The resulting texts are presented in the first part of this number.