ART HISTORY
Art History I: Introductory Overview – 1st Semester
Nikos Daskalothanasis, Professor
An introductory overview of the full range of periods, movements, schools, and trends in the history of Western art, from antiquity to the present day.
Art History II: Modern Art – 2nd Semester
Nikos Daskalothanasis, Professor
A historical overview of the major movements in Western art from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century.
Art History III: Modern Art – 3rd Semester
Nikos Daskalothanasis, Professor
A critical presentation of new artistic trends from the early post-war decades to the present day.
Art History IV: History of Modern Greek Art – 4th Semester
Eleonora Vratskidou, Assistant Professor
The lecture offers an overview of the history of Modern Greek art from the mid-18th to the mid-20th century. It addresses various definitions of the subject matter, its geographical and chronological boundaries, as well as the main related historiography categories. Through an examination of the most significant artists of the period, the lecture explores the diverse manifestations of Modern Greek art within their historical-political and social contexts, alongside their interactions with European artistic movements. The course also focuses on the institutional formation of the artistic field in Greece and the study of the theoretical and critical discourse on art produced during this period. Throughout the investigation, approaches drawn from intercultural history are employed with the aim of highlighting the cultural transfers and appropriations that have contributed to shaping the country’s artistic production and the broader art environment.
ELEONORA VRATSKIDOU / Assistant Professor
Eleonora Vratskidou is Αssistant Professor at the Department of Theory and History of Art, at the Athens School of Fine Arts since September 2021. From 2018 to 2021 she worked as a visiting professor at the Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und historische Urbanistik (Vertretung: Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy), at the Technical University of Berlin. She graduated with a B.A. in History and Archaeology from Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, and holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in History and Civilizations from the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (E.H.E.S.S.), Paris. She has been a visiting researcher at the Dahlem Humanities Center, Freie Universität Berlin (2012); a Mary Seeger O’Boyle Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University (2012-2013) and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Technische Universität Berlin (2014-2017). She has previously taught at the EHESS (2011-2012), the François-Rabelais University of Tours (2014) and the School of Fine Arts in Athens (2015). She is a specialist of modern Greek art and cultural history, while her current research interests concern the history of art history, with a particular focus on the role played by art practitioners in the shaping of the discipline, as well as contemporary art biennials and exhibition culture.
Email: evratskidou@asfa.gr
NIKOS DASKALOTHANASIS / Professor
Nikos Daskalothanasis is a professor of modern and contemporary art history at the Department of Art Theory and History of the Athens School of Fine Arts. He has published, among others, a monograph on Giorgio de Chirico (The painting of Giorgio de Chirico: the articulation of visual space in Arte Metafisica, Athens, Opera/Critica, 2001), a book on the historical role of the artist (The artist as a historical subject: From the 19th to the 21st century, Athens, Agra Publications, 2004) and a study on the early formation of art history in Europe (Art history, the birth of a new discipline: from the 19th to the 20th century, Athens, Agra Publications, 2013). In 2015 he has published a collection of his unpublished writings (Restitutions. 14 texts on art history, Athens, futura publications). He is the editor of the book From minimal to conceptual art: a critical anthology, Athens, Athens School of Fine Arts, 2006. He translated and edited the Greek edition of the collected essays of Clement Greenberg, Art and culture, Athens, Nefeli Publications (the library of art), 2007. He translated and edited Le Lai d’Aristote or Aristotle and Phyllis (Athens, Agra, 2018). He is also the editor of the Festschrift in Honor of Professor Niki Loizidi (Athens, futura, 2019). In 2021 his book Art History 1945-1975: From Modern to Contemporary Art Painting – Sculpture – Architecture was published (Athens, futura Publications). He is the editor of the Greek peer reviewed academic journal Istoria tis Technis (Art History) (Athens, futura Publications, 2013-) https://istoriatechnisinfo.wordpress.com/. His research interests include art historiography as well as art theory and art history from the mid-19th century to the present day.
Email: ndaskalothanasis@asfa.gr