Ut pictura poesis: Manos Stefanidis

Monday, February 24, 2020, 7-8.30pm

Main Quad Building 260, Room 252 (German Studies Library), Stanford University campus

Manos Stefanidis is Associate Professor at the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens where he teaches Art History. He has published extensively on modern Greek art and on the interface of visual arts and literature and he is also an accomplished poet. He was commissioner of Greece in the Venice Biennale and he organized and directed the branch of the National Gallery in Corfu. His books (in Greek) include among others the 10-volume Ellinomouseion; A History of Painting, from Byzantium to the Renaissance and the Impressionists to Picasso; Little Gallery, Personalities, Judgments and Values of Greek art; Glass Eye, Essays on the Teleculture and Aesthetics of Poverty. His Τραγούδια για το πένθος (“Songs for grief”) latest poetry book was published by Kastaniotis editions.