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Modern States, Ancient Nations: Balkan National Pavilions at the Paris World Exhibitions in the Twentieth Century
(Athens : The Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2011)
The 1900 Paris World Exhibition in particular seems highly elucidating. Simultaneously referring to the nation's 'glorious past' and contemporary modernity, the ephemeral pavilions of Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania ...
Paradoxes of a Cultural Divide: European Identities and the Appropriation of Byzantine Architecture in the 19 and 20th Century
(Manchester, New Hampshire and Athens, Greece: Hellenic American University, 2016)
Since the beginning of the nineteenth century, many Western European nations have been historicized through a variety of disciplinary regimes—from political and cultural history, to archaeology and architectural history. ...
Straddling the National Divide: Appropriated Pasts, Inverted Archaeologies, and Byzantine Architecture in Europe, 1878-1939
(Dublin: University College Dublin - School of Art History and Cultural Policy, 2016)
Although the “French Byzantine architecture” was methodically invented by nineteenth century historians, and revived by architects to distinguish the French from other European nations, it was the same nexus between the ...
National Museums in Serbia: A Story of Intertwined Identities
(Linköping: Linköping University Press, 2011)
In our paper, we are analyzing five museums as the comparative objects of research aimed at
exploring the processes of identity- and state-building in Serbia over the course of the last two
centuries. These museums are: ...