Reconfiguring the past: Antiquity and Greekness

Tziovas, Dimitris

doi:10.12681/benaki.18048

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“…To explain how this played out, I must introduce a concept crucial in understanding his performance of the nation: "Greekness," which I am using as an imperfect translation of ellinikotita. Gaining particular relevance in the 1930s, ellinikotita constitutes, as Dimitris Tziovas (2008) explains, a bridge between an internally experienced national consciousness and an externally projected national identity. Several other terms also point to this tension.…”

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Choreographing Proximity and Difference: Vassos Kanellos's Performance of Greekness as an Embodied Negotiation with Western Dance Modernity

Leon¹

2023

Dance Res. J.

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Countering the historiographic under-representation of Greek modern dance, this article focuses on early twentieth-century dance artist Vassos Kanellos. Combining Western/European choreographic inputs and local, often traditional, elements, Kanellos rearticulated the inscription of Greek dance in historical time—beyond a sole focus on antiquity—and anchored it in a nationally marked space and in the specificity of a posited Greek “race.” Informed by new modernist studies, this article reads Kanellos's practice as a reflection of the country's process of constructing a hegemonic national identity against a background in which Greece constituted both Europe's subaltern periphery and the foundation of its genealogical narrative.

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Choreographing Proximity and Difference: Vassos Kanellos's Performance of Greekness as an Embodied Negotiation with Western Dance Modernity

Leon¹

2023

Dance Res. J.

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“…They had the vision to create artworks that would reflect theuniversality of Greek culture through the centuries, combining Greek folk tradition with Modern art (Tziovas, 2011). As a result, they established a new dogma, "Greekness" (Hellinikotita), that would aestheticize their Greek-centered opinions, attitudes, and symbols, and foster a new national identity, with certain criteria in art (Tziovas, 1989).…”

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Abstract Art in Greece: The Pioneer Architects

Sarakatsianou¹

2022

DAC

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The early years of the 20th century is a period of deep intellectual reappraisal as well as social and intellectual change. The modern painters’ experiments have come right to the forefront of artistic attention. Modernism was the point when the idea of radical and innovating arts, the experimental, technical, aesthetic idea reached a formal crisis, leading to abstract art. Modernism predicates the origins of post-war art as Post-Modernism adds to the abundance of versions of Modernism. After World War II abstract expressionism achieved international influence.On the contrary, in Greece during the first half of the 20th century, abstract art was absent. It actually appeared in the 1950s but it became dominant in the 1960s. In the post-war period, there were many talented Greek architects such as, Marthas, Xenakis, Proveleggios, Tsingos, Fatouros who became interested in painting, following the contemporary art tendencies. This paper focuses on abstract painting in Greece both in the early years of the 20th century as well as in the 1950s and 1960s. In this context, the contribution of Greek architects as pioneer visual artists in the 1950s and 1960s to the gradual establishment of abstract painting in Greece is probed, using as a methodological tool mainly artworks and written sources of that period. It is argued that Greek architects with their artworks and their wide range of activities in the field of visual arts express the modern consciousness and pave the way for abstract art in Greece.

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Paused Renaissance: Factors Affecting the Athens Byzantine and Christian Museum Branding

Zarkada

Markaki

2022

Transcending Borders in Tourism Through Innovation and Cultural Heritage

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Reconfiguring the past: Antiquity and Greekness

Cited by 6 publications

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Choreographing Proximity and Difference: Vassos Kanellos's Performance of Greekness as an Embodied Negotiation with Western Dance Modernity

Choreographing Proximity and Difference: Vassos Kanellos's Performance of Greekness as an Embodied Negotiation with Western Dance Modernity

Abstract Art in Greece: The Pioneer Architects

Paused Renaissance: Factors Affecting the Athens Byzantine and Christian Museum Branding

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