GEOGRAPHY AND ART

Text topic: Studies

Text author: Милош Ћипранић

The aim of this paper is to analyse the phenomenon of geography in the works of Saša Brajović. Two parallel issues discussed in the paper are 1) whether in the group of texts dedicated to the cult of Virgin Mary in the Bay of Kotor by an art historian from Belgrade, notably in the monographies Our Lady of the Rocks (2000) and In Mary’s Garden (2006), there are elements which point to the presence of a geography of art (dissemination and trajectories of art forms in space, relation between art centres and art peripheries, directions of artists movements, description of artistic topography, availability and nature of materials necessary for art production) and 2) what is the logic of the geographical discourse in the aforementioned historiographical undertaking relating to the two main established theories so far (geographical determinism and geographical possibilism).