Contemporary Cyprus Art
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Author | : Elena Stylianou |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2021-03-25 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1350198668 |
To what extent does locality influence contemporary art? Can any particular artistic practices be defined as uniquely Cypriot? And does art from Cyprus transcend Western boundaries once it enters the global art scene? This volume uses Cyprus as a case study for the exploration of notions of identity, regionalism, and the global and local in contemporary art practice; it is not, therefore, a complete historiography of contemporary Cypriot art. Rather, this critical text provides a theoretical and historical framework that frames and contextualizes art practices from Cyprus, while always relating these back to the international art world. Numerous current and pressing issues-all relevant beyond Cyprus-are investigated in this book including, but not limited to, art as capital, the emergence of the “periphery”, the importance of thriving localities, issues of memory and memorialization, archaeology, artists' identities, conflict and politics, social engagement, gender politics, and such curatorial alternatives as artist-run spaces. In doing all of this, Contemporary Art from Cyprus not only bears on current and future art practices in this region but highlights the importance of Cypriot art in a global context too.
Author | : Commonwealth Institute (Great Britain). Art Gallery |
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Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : Liz Wells |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2020-12-18 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1000213382 |
Formerly a British colony, the island of Cyprus is now a divided country, where histories of political and cultural conflicts, as well as competing identities, are still contested. Cyprus provides the ideal case study for this innovative exploration, extensively illustrated, of how the practice of photography in relation to its political, cultural and economic contexts both contributes and responds to the formation of identity. Contributors from Cyprus, Greece, the UK and the USA, representing diverse disciplines, draw from photography theory, art history, anthropology and sociology to explore how the island and its people have been represented photographically. They reveal how the different gazes- colonial, political, gendered, and within art photography- contribute to the creation of individual and national identities and, by extension, to the creation and re-creation of imagery of Cyprus as place. While Photography and Cyprus focuses on one geographical and cultural territory, the questions this book asks and the themes and arguments it follows apply also to other places characterized by their colonial heritage. The intriguing example of Cyprus thus serves as a fitting test-ground for current debates relating to photography, place and identity.
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Total Pages | : 39 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Painting |
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Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2016-04 |
Genre | : Cyprus |
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Author | : Danielle Gold |
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Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Art |
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Publisher | : Politistikes Hyperesies Hypourgeiou Paideias Kai Politismou |
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Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Art, Cypriot |
ISBN | : 9789963000395 |
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Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9788884350909 |
Author | : Stass Paraskos |
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Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2016-06-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780992924775 |
Written by the celebrated Cypriot artist Stass Paraskos, the Mythology of Cyprus is an immensely readable and truly entertaining journey through the pagan world of ancient Cyprus, when the island really was the Land of Aphrodite, goddess of love. First published in 1981, the book was a pioneering exploration of the way ancient Greek mythology was understood in a regional location such as Cyprus. As Michael Paraskos explains in his new introduction, the book was written at a time when few academics bothered to pay much attention to Cyprus, and many Cypriots themselves preferred to see their island's history and culture as no more than an extension of Greece or Turkey, rather than a unique phenomenon in its own right. The publication of this book set down a challenge to those narratives, presenting for the first time a uniquely Cypriot view of ancient Greek mythology ad folklore, written by a Cypriot. With special excursions into surviving influences of pagan belief and practise in modern Cyprus, and a fictionalised journey around pre-Christian Cyprus in the company of a character named Bronteas, the Mythology of Cyprus is joy to read.