Conference paper
ON KAJKAVIAN REGIONS HISTORICAL/ARTISTIC CONSTRUCTION HERITAGE IN THE "KAJ" PERIODICAL
Tomislav Premerl
; Arhitektonski fakultet Zagreb; poslijediplomski studij povijesti umjetnosti Filozofskog fakulteta u Zagrebu, Hrvatska
Abstract
It is almost a scientific and research job to give just a summary of writers and subject matter published in the KAJ periodical in the space of forty years. It is not a mere list of works and authors, but an impressive quantity of data, many of which were presented, published and asserted by experts for the first time ever. A number of authors with different profiles gathered around a periodical that should be given special acknowledgements for finding them and engaging them. There was vast space to be filled in our specialized literature on the history and architectural heritage that was even scarcer in those former times, so that most of the authors accepted the task with love in their hearts and enthusiasm, carrying out the work linked with their vocational and scientific interests. The periodical soon became a significant and acceptable field of activity, at least in a certain circle of art historians, architects, culturologists and others. Thus the periodical graded itself in an interdisciplinary manner as one of the leading spots for newly researched cognitions on our earlier and recent past where subject matter intertwined without borderlines between declared areas. It is almost impossible to demarcate areas through the periodical's profile, and this freedom for creating was something that also attracted authors.
Intertwining but not repetition of thought is necessary and it is this approach that gives the periodical special characteristics as a valuable and also charming reading matter. A variety of subject matters by top authors were published in KAJ as of primary interest in researching the rich culturological Kajkavian area heritage, so the journal, being quoted from in encyclopedias and specialized printed matter stimulated and initiated many a new interest in up till the then unknown or uncared for localities of inherited values.
The special and incalculable value of the periodical was in analyzing certain micro-regions or larger settlements in the Kajkavian dialect area, of course, with frequent Zagreb subject matter to which certain issues were dedicated to. Such entireties were most often covered from all accessible viewpoints and they always represent a culturological contribution to the overall body of national material and spiritual values.
Only today we as its contributors, and I hope KAJ readers too, are able to see KAJ's real culturological value during the past forty years, because the material published in the periodical is a basis for us as well and impulse in further interests and research of historical/artistic and architectural heritage of which we are indeed very proud of.
Keywords
architectural heritage; history of art, archeology, architecture, ethnology, ecology and culturological overview in the KAJ periodical; interdisciplinarity and authenticity of approach in the affirmation of unknown monumental heritage; KAJ references in encyclopedias and specialized literature
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70435
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Publication date:
5.7.2009.
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