CONTENTS #4

Art History [Istoria tis Technis] journal

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CORPUS

Irini Marinaki

«Nicolas Calas and Chess: Art as Play, Play as Art»

Louisa Avgita

«Reclaiming History: The Feminist Perspective of Linda Nochlin»

Spyros Moschonas

«The Artistic Leagues as ‘Pillars’ of Artistic Activity (1930-1955)»

Thanassis Th. Sotiriou – Vassiliki Pliatsika

«The Influence of Minoan and Mycenaean Art on the Work of the Architect Nikolaos Zoumboulidis»

XENIA

T. J. Clark

«Picasso’s Guernica»

Translated from english into greek by Annie Malama

OPINIO

Otto Karl Werckmeister 

«Benjamin, No More! The New Edition of Walter Benjamin’s Essay “The Work of Art in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility”»

Translated from english into greek by Titina Kornezou

DATA

Maria G. Moschou

«Theophilos as an Icon-painter and the Six Icons Published in the Catalogue to the Exhibition “Hommage à Tériade” (Telloglion Foundation, Thessaloniki)»

SOURCES AND DOCUMENTS

«Report of the Police Commissioner on Picasso’s activity in Paris (1901)». Edited and translated from french into greek by Nikos Daskalothanassis.

«Barnett Newman, The Sublime is Now (1948)». Translated from english into greek by Nasia Tsatsou.

«A chanson by Giotto, Florentine painter». Translated from italian into greek by Vasiliki Daniil.

BIBLIOGRAPHIA

Vasari’s Vite: Editions, translations and studies. Compiled by Panayotis Ioannou.

A bibliography of ancient sources on art. Compiled by Nikos Daskalothanassis.

BOOK REVIEWS

Ianthi Asimakopoulou

  • Richard Turner, Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art (Greek edition)
  • Alkis Charalampidis, I Italiki Anagennisi: Architektoniki, Glyptiki, Zografiki [The Italian Renaissance: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting]

Alexandros Diamantis

Konstantinos Vassiliou (ed.), Techni kai Dimiourgikotita. Mia anthologia [Art and Creativity. An Anthology]

Kostas Tsiambaos

Josep-Maria Montaner, Istoria tis synchronis architektonikis: kinimata, idees kai dimiourgoi sto deutero miso tou eikostou aiona [History of Contemporary Architecture: Movements, Ideas and Creators in the Second Half of the 20th Century]

EXHIBITION REVIEWS

Nikos Axarlis

«Malevich: Revolutionary of Russian Art», Tate Modern, London (16 July – 26 October 2014)

Stratis Pantazis

«Michelangelo Pistoletto», Aeschylean Festival, Elaiourgio, Elefsina (30 August – 5 October 2014)

Annie Kontogiorgi

«Theodoros Ralli, Looking East», Benaki Museum – Kerameikos Building Complex, Athens (11 December 2014 – 15 March 2015)

Popi Sfakianaki

«Hommage à Tériade», Teloglion Foundation of Art, A.U.Th., Thessaloniki (14 November 2014 – 19 April 2015)

Alexandros Teneketzis

«Visual Arts and Resistance», Municipal Art Gallery (24 October – 30 November 2014) & Eleftherias Park Arts Center, Athens (29 October – 30 November 2014)