Art History [Istoria tis Technis] journal
Front cover: Matthew Barney, Cremaster 5, Her Giant, 1997, C-print in acrylic frame, 134 x 108.3 x 2.5 cm.
CORPUS
Nina Papazoglou
«Contemporary Art and Decadence: Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle»
Christina Dimakopoulou
«The Paradox of Progressive Conservatism: The Sculptor Yannis Pappas as Head of the Athens School of Fine Arts»
Yannis Hadjinicolaou
«The View from Derelict Rooftops: Demetrοs Anastasatos’s Conservative Aesthetics»
Nikolaos Graikos
«Constructing Neohellenic Ecclesiastical Art: The Theorem of “Improved Byzantine Painting”«
XENIA
Horst Bredekamp
«A Neglected Tradition? Art History as Bildwissenschaft»
Translated from english into greek by Ilia Mottaki
DIVERTIMENTI
Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo
«A Fake Danaë by El Greco»
Translated from italian into greek by Panayotis Ioannou
OPINIO
Nicos Hadjinicolaou
«Greek Art Critics and Historians in Paris, 1945-1975: A Personal Testament»
SOURCES AND DOCUMENTS
Giorgio Vasari, Giorgio Vasari’s Lives. The Prefaces (Proemi) to the Three Ages (1550, 1568). Translated from Italian into Greek and edited by Panayotis Ioannou.
The Paragone or Comparison of the Arts. Bronzino’s and Michelangelo’s Letters to Benedetto Varchi (1549). Translated from Italian into Greek by Ianthi Assimakopoulou and Dinos Pitihoutis.
Carlo Cesare Malvasia, The Funeral of Agostino Carracci Held in Bologna His Homeland by the Incaminati Academicians of Design – Written for the Most Illustrious and Most Reverend Cardinal Farnese. Translated from Italian into Greek and edited by Panayotis Lagos.
Marcel Duchamp, The Richard Mutt Case (1917). Translated from English into Greek by Nikos Daskalothanassis.
BOOK REVIEWS
Titina Kornezou
Nafsika Litsardopoulou, I Zografiki Paragogi ton Kato Choron kata ton 17o aiona [The Painting Production of the Low Countries in the 17th Century]
Panayotis Bikas
Martin Kemp, Continuity, Change and Progress. A Message from the Visual Arts? (bilingual edition)
Nikos G. Moschonas
Gherardo Ortalli, La pittura infamante. Secoli XIII-XVI
Annie Malama
Claude Mollard, Le 5ème pouvoir: La Culture et l’Etat de Malraux à Lang (Greek edition)
EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Spyros Moschonas
Α. Tassos 1914-1985, Benaki Museum – Building at 138 Pireos Street, Athens (30 November 2015 – 31 January 2016)
Irene Orati
Fotis Kontoglou. From “LOGOS” to “EKPHRASIS»: With drawings and decorative designs by the author’s hand. Fotis Kontoglou from Kydonies: by his Hand and Imagination, Benaki Museum – Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika Gallery, Athens (8 December 2015 – 20 February 2016 *exhibition extended until 5 March 2016)
Areti Leopoulou
Strange Cities: Athens, Diplareios School, Athens (20 April – 28 June 2015)
CONFERENCES
Areti Adamopoulou
5th Conference of History of Art: Issues of History, Methodology, Historiography, Athens, 15 – 17 January 2016
Popi Sfakianaki
Festival de l‘histoire de l’art, Fontainebleau, France, 29 – 31 May 2015
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