Representations of identity in art and verbal-visual culture of the Modern era

The object of the research is a historical development of representations of identity in art and verbal-visual culture of the Modern era. The attention will be paid to the problem of an individual-identity construction, identity of small and minority groups and to the analysis of their relation to the dominant ethic, religious, patriotic and national identities. The main object of the research will be approached from a multidisciplinary point of view, analysed in a wider framework of the modern cultural history connected to the Humanities in general. According to the chosen object of the research a multidisciplinary team of project participants is formed consisting of the representatives from historical and social scientific disciplines. The aim of the project and the expected results aim at the defining of the role of art and verbal-visual culture in the constitution of the representations of identities. The results are expected to show that art and verbal-visual culture were among the principal elements in the process of the constitution of identity and the strategy of representing it in the culture of the Modern era.