[MGSA-L] Princeton Hellenic Studies lecture: January 18, 2011

Dimitri H. Gondicas gondicas at princeton.edu
Mon Jan 10 12:50:38 PST 2011


 

 

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

 

Program in Hellenic Studies and Art Museum

 

Presentation

 

Reconsidering the History of

Twentieth Century Art in Greece:

The Project Modern Art in Greece: A Chronology

 

Polina Kosmadaki

Benaki Museum, Athens

The project Modern Art in Greece: A Chronology, a year-by-year timeline of modern and contemporary art in Greece, is directed by Polina Kosmadaki and Evgenios Matthiopoulos for the Benaki Museum's latest satellite museum that is dedicated to the arts of the interwar period. The project forms part of the recent initiative by the Benaki Museum to extend its collections, its artistic and historical archives and its research focus into the twentieth century. Linked to the permanent exhibition, the Chronology will be presented as a multimedia application in the galleries of the new museum, alongside similar timelines on photography, architecture,  social and cultural history. The presentation of this new project will introduce the audience to the way the timeline was conceived and the general ideas behind the development of its structure. It will focus on content, highlighting the criteria used for the choice of events and art objects, as well as on the general thematic axes, foundations and structure. A selection of "chapters" will be presented to illustrate how connections are established throughout the vast body of material.  The presentation will close with a discussion of how this concise chronological presentation of Greek art could lead to further studies, for instance, comparisons of Greek artistic production with that of other countries, or considerations on the reception of "metropolitan" trends in "peripheral" countries.

Polina Kosmadaki is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Department of Painting, Prints and Drawings of the Benaki Museum, Athens, as well as Lecturer in Art at the European Studies program of the Hellenic Open University. With a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Paris-IV-Sorbonne, she is a member of the Scientific Committee in the quadrennial program undertaken by the Benaki Museum, the French School of Athens and the Institute of Mediterranean Studies, on the cultural exchange between France and Greece during the interwar period. For the Benaki Museum, she has organized and curated a number of exhibitions, edited catalogues and contributed with articles and papers in a number of edited volumes on modern and contemporary Greek art. She is the author of a monograph on the Greek sculptor Titsa Chrysochoidi. Her current research and publications focus on the participation of Greece in the "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs" in Paris in 1925, on the journal Cahiers d'art and the work of Christian Zervos as publisher and as art critic, as well as on the national exhibitions of contemporary art presented during the "Greek Month" in London in 1975.

 

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

12:30 p.m.

Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103

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