ART HISTORY IN GREECE

Παρουσίαση

The essays in this volume give the international academic community as broad a picture as possible of the historical development of and the main trends in the history of art in Greece, along with the level of educational achievements in that field.
The study of modern European art history has been systematically developed as a specialist discipline both in academia and in the public sphere in Greece since the late 1970s onwards. In recent decades, the history of Western art has begun to be regularly taught in Greek universities, both at undergraduate level and in postgraduate and doctoral programmes. During the same period, an increasing number of Greek art historians have been trained in undergraduate and postgraduate courses at prestigious universities mainly in France, the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States, thus contributing, if they return to work in their native land, to a multifaceted updating of the theoretical and methodological tools of art history in Greece.
The ideological issues and objective difficulties of establishing art history into an academic discipline in Greece are presented in great detail in the pages of this volume, while the theoretical and methodological directions taken both in historiography and in academic teaching, are also thoroughly examined. Alongside these, there is some discussion on the attempts made over the last twenty years to form a permanent academic community through positive action, such as holding regular conferences, academic colloquia and lectures, under the aegis of the Association of Greek Art Historians. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Preface
- Nikos Daskalothanassis
Art History in Greece: an Outline
- Evgenios D. Matthiopoulos
Art History Within National Borders
- Lefteris Spyrou
The National Gallery's Display in the 1950s and its Contribution towards the Formation of the History of Art in Greece and the Canon of Modern Greek Art
- Areti Adamopoulou
Born of a "Peripheral" Modernism: Art History in Greece and Cyprus
- Aris Sarafianos
Art History in Greece Today
- Annie Kontogiorgi and Angeliki Pollali
EEIT: A Brief History
Notes on Contributors
Index