Ahu Antmen

Bio

Ahu Antmen is Professor of modern and contemporary art at Sabancı University in Istanbul. Her research is based on issues of modernity, identity and gender in 20th century Turkish art. Her recent research has been published in Mapping Impressionist Painting in Transnational Contexts (Routledge, 2021), A Companion to Impressionism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), Globalizing Impressionism: Reception, Translation, and Transnationalism (Yale University Press, 2020), and Curatorial Challenges-Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Curating (Routledge, 2019). Her curatorial work includes Bare, Naked, Nude-A Story of Modernity in Turkish Painting at the Pera Museum, Istanbul (2015).

Contributions

Learning Modern Art as a Foreign Language: Turkey’s Culture Revolution, the d group and André Lhote

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The Turkish War of Independence resulted in the official end of the Ottoman Empire in 1923 and dismantled the traditional, religious culture of Islam in Turkey. The ensuing secularist and modernist Atatürk Reforms are considered a revolution that aimed at transforming the cultural fabric of Turkish society. All aspects of life were reconstructed within the span of a decade: from the 1920s to the 1930s, a new civil code and alphabet were introduced, the metric and calendar system was established...

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