Transnationalism in the Field of Art in Greece The Case of the International Exhibition of Athens in 1903

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.30301
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transnational Athens International exhibition periphery Art exhibitions greek art historiography Kimon Loghi Tinerimea Artistica World's Columbian exposition Thalia Flora
Katia Papandreopoulou
Athens School of Fine Arts
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4716-2448
Abstract

The study examines the artistic production of the early twentieth century in Greece in the light of the transnational approach. The static myths prevalent in the historiography of Greek art in the twentieth century are revised through the study of the circulation of artists, sources, exchanges, connections, or resistances, as well as local or international participation in exhibitions regarding this period. The study of the case of the International Exhibition of Athens, including its curation and the artists who entered it, that took place in the Zappeion Megaron in 1903, proves that the Greek artistic production of the period was not marginal and belated. On the contrary, Athens, a periphery with particular geographical and cultural dynamics, interacted with the Mediterranean and the Balkans, highlighted its own networks and routes, thus managing to function as a crossroads of innovations and traditions of the wider region at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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Katia Papandreopoulou, Athens School of Fine Arts

Katia Papandreopoulou is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Patras, Greece. She received her Bachelor at the University of Crete (2005), her Master II (2006) and Doctorat (2013) at the Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Her thesis, titled “Camille Mauclair (1872–1945), critique et historien de l’art: ‘une leçon de nationalisme pictural’” was awarded with the Prix Musée d’Orsay and will be published in 2023 by Peter Lang. From 2020 to 2022 she was Postdoctoral Fellow at State Scholarships Foundation (IKY, Greece) in collaboration with the Athens School of Fine Arts, working on the transnational approaches of the artistic production in Greece at the beginning of the twentieth century. She specializes in nineteenth and twentieth century art and art criticism, the history of art exhibitions, racist and nationalist discourses in the history of art.

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