Space, Art and Architecture between East and West: The Revolutionary Spirit. (original) (raw)

The international conference Space, Art and Architecture between East and West: The Revolutionary Spirit, organized by the Module Art-Architecture-Urban Planning, Hellenic Open University intends to explore the spatial and creative aspects and impacts of the above processes both diachronically and in the present. More particularly, the following relevant dimensions will be pursued globally:  Competing cultures: ‘East’-‘West’ dialogues, rationalities, spatialities, perceptions, artistic and architectural creativity, old and new colonialisms, clashes and upheavals.  Processes of exchange during the beginning of modernity, starting from the 16th century.  What and where was the Renaissance in regard to appropriations and interpretations of Byzantium and the East.  Edward Said’s Orientalism and cultures of travel: The present narratives.  Eastern art and architecture as Western history of art and architecture.  Post-war cultural dynamism of the USA as the new ‘Western’ frontier of art and art history.