ABSTRACT
There are a number of concepts, key words, and catchphrases that most researchers and students of East European art history are likely to come across at some point during their inquiries. The conference "East European Art seen from Global Perspectives" responded to Piotrowski's call—both in terms of the actual Call for Papers and his broader intellectual enterprise—by bringing together twenty-two speakers from various parts of the world working on art and architectural history, contemporary art, and broader cultural processes in east-central Europe. This chapter sees the region as an imbricated and heterogeneous field that nevertheless shares historical characteristics that do warrant the use of the term and concept "East-Central Europe" or "Eastern Europe. Jorg Scheller underscores that, around 1900, east-central European art and intellectual life were powerfully shaped by phenomena that are commonly associated with globalization, such as migration, cosmopolitanism, diaspora, hybridization, transculturality, and the salience of imagined communities.
