Events Calendar – British School at Athens

BSA Friends’ lecture

Professor Nikos Daskalothanasis (Athens School of Fine Arts), “Το πρώτο ίδρυμα καλλιτεχνικής εκπαίδευσης στην Ελλάδα: η ιστορία της Ανωτάτης Σχολής Καλών Τεχνών της Αθήνας”

[The first educational art institution in Greece: the history of the Athens School of Fine Arts]

Please note: the lecture will take place in Greek

Abstract: The aim of the lecture is to reconstruct the history of the first educational artistic institution of the modern Greek state. On the one hand, it reflects aspects of the course of modern Greek art itself and on the other hand, it is linked to issues concerning the educational and institutional involvement of artists throughout the history of modern Greece. This double axis shapes the perspective adopted by the lecture. Its chronological scope covers the period beginning with the placement of the first painter at the School of Arts to teach oil painting and ending in the first half of the 1970s, after the fall of the Colonels’ regime, when the School was now ready to attempt a more systematic dialogue with international artistic movements.

Bio: Nikos Daskalothanasis is a professor of modern and contemporary art history at the Department of Theory and History of Art, Athens School of Fine Arts. He has published (in Greek), among others, 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 2021 and 2023 his books Art History 1945-1975: From Modern to Contemporary Ant: Painting – Sculpture – Architecture (Athens, futura Publications) and Art History. The Western World (Athens. Utopia Publications) were published. 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.

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image: Loizos Lantzas, The Southern Portico of the Athens School of Fine Arts, 1895, Collection of ASFA. ©ASFA