Analytic Aesthetics / Art and Emotion / Aesthetic Experience / Empathetic Imagination in Understanding Art / Pictorial Representation / Intentionalism / Values of Art
Edited Collections
Kyprianidou, Ε. (2019) (ed. & introduction). The Art of Compassion. Athens: Nissos Publications. [Contributors: Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck University), Eleni Filippachi (Hellenic Open University), Kostas Ioannides (Athens School of Fine Arts), Efi Kyprianidou (Open University of Cyprus), Amber J. Porter (University of Calgary), Samantha Mitschke (Holocaust Educational Trust), Aris Sarafianos (University of Ioannina), Dimitra Makriniotis (National Kapodistrian University of Athens)].
Kyprianidou, E. (2017) (ed. & introduction). Weaving Culture in Europe. Athens: Nissos Publications. [Contributors: Ruby Blondell (University of Washington), Jacob Lund (Aarhus University), Diana Wood Conroy (University of Wollongong), Janis Jefferies (Goldsmith’s University), Alexandra Kokoli (Middlesex University), Myrto Voreakou (National Technical University of Athens)].
Articles / Book Chapters
Kyprianidou, E. (2020). “Jacques Derrida: Philosophical Postmodernism and the Play of Signs”. In Baltas, A., Dimitrakos, Th. (eds) French Structuralism. Heraklion: Crete University Press. (forthcoming)
Κyprianidou, Ε. (2019). “On Empathy: Art and Illness,”. In Kyprianidou, E. (ed) The Art of Compassion, Athens: Nissos Publications.
Kyprianidou, E. (2019). “The Portrait in Cypriot Culture”. In Ioannou, Y. (ed) Chroniko, No. 51, (in Greek), pp. 4-22.
Kyprianidou, E., Papadaki, E. (2019). “Arts Museums and Digital Marketing”. In Theodosiou, S., Papadaki, E. Technoculture and Culture Industries. Athens: Nissos Publications. (in Greek).
Kyprianidou, E. (2018). “Culture Wars. Censorship and the Arts in Cyprus”. In Ioannou, Y. (ed) Chroniko, No. 40. (in Greek), pp. 4-21.
Kyprianidou, E. (2017). “Empathy for the Depicted”. Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics. vol.9, 2017. Ratiu D.E, Vaughan, C. (eds), pp. 305-333.
Kyprianidou, E. (2017). “Weaving Cultural Identities”. In Kyprianidou, E. (ed). Weaving Culture in Europe. Athens: Nissos Publications. pp. 11-23.
Kyprianidou, E. (2017). “The World as Meditation: Curating an art exhibition”. In Kyprianidou, E. (ed). Weaving Culture in Europe. Athens: Nissos Publications. pp. 115-118.
Kyprianidou, Ε. (2014): “Between East and West: Aspects of the First Generation of Cypriot Artists” [online]. Virtual Museum of Modern and Contemporary Cypriot Art. Available at <http://virtualartmuseumcy.com/istoria/ ageniakyprionkallitexnon/>.
Kyprianidou, Ε. (2013). “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters: Aesthetics and Ethics in Artworks”. In Nicodemou, E. (ed) Documentary, Nicosia: Aegeon Publications.
Kyprianidou, E. (2011). “Memory and the Abyss of Communication: Philosophers’ Collective Memory, Citation and Meaning Attribution”, Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, Volume 2, Number 2, 8 December 2011, pp. 181-194.
Kyprianidou, E. (2009) “Experimental Activities in Teaching Physical Sciences: The Myth Of the Given, Sellars and Some Remarks on the Use of Experiment in Science Class”. In Korfiatis K., Raftopoulos A., Portides, D. and Charalambous D. (eds.), The Great Scientific Theories in Natural Science Education, Proceedings of the 5th Panhellenic Conference of History, Philosophy and Education of the Physical Sciences, Nicosia: University of Cyprus. (in Greek). pp. 140-147.
Books
Kyprianidou, Ε. (2011): A philosophical Inquiry of Linguistic Communication (Dissertation). National & Kapodistrian University of Athens & National Technical University of Athens. Published on the online platform https://www.didaktorika.gr/ (in Greek).
Essays in exhibition/museum catalogues
Kyprianidou, Ε. (2018). “Portraiture in Cypriot Culture”. In Kyprianidou, Ε. (ed.) Portraits: Αura of Life and Death. Nicosia: Cultural Council of Cyprus & Evagoras and Kathleen Lanitis Cultural Center. pp. 12-39.
Kyprianidou, E., Rogakos, M. (2018). “Sublimating Sexuality and the Dubious Normality of Being into Art”. In Art is a Way Out of Sexual Problems. Saint Petersburg: Freud’s Dream Museum. pp. 11-14.
Kyprianidou, Ε. (2014). From Greece to Cyprus: 23 Young Cypriot Artists. Nicosia: EnTypois Publications. (in Greek).
Catalogue Texts
“Chimera”, essay in exhibition catalogue, ‘Penny Monogiou: Chimera’, Greskewitz-Kleinitz Galerie, Hamburg, 2016.
“The Great Journey”, essay in exhibition catalogue, “Christos Avraam: The Great Journey”, Gloria Gallery, Nicosia, 2016.
“Supernova”, essay in exhibition catalogue, “Ignatios Mitrofanous: Invisible Worlds”, Camden image Gallery, London, 2015.
“Social Contract”, essay in exhibition catalogue, ‘Christos Avraam: Social Contract’. Alpha Gallery, Nicosia, 2013.
“Through the Eyes of the Soul”, essay in exhibition catalogue, ‘Eleni Menelaou: Retrospective’. EKATE, Nicosia, 2013.
“Not quite a Memory”, essay in exhibition catalogue, ‘Zenon Jepras’. Alpha Gallery, Nicosia, 2012.
“Apostolos Yayannos and the Flowers of Virtue”, essay in exhibition catalogue, ‘Flowers. Only’. Titanium Gallery, Athens, 2012.
“Photography and Environmental Perception”, essay in exhibition catalogue, ‘Yannis Tzortzis: Photography”, AnniArt 798, Beijing, 2010.
“From the Silk Road to Natural Gas Road”, essay in exhibition catalogue, ‘Yannis Tzortzis: Green Project in Asia”, Manifactura Gallery, Athens, 2009.
2016-2018
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of History & Philosophy of Science, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. Title: “Illness-related art and the development of empathy”.
2007-2011 | National & Kapodistrian University of Athens & National Technical University of Athens, PhD in Philosophy. Dissertation: A philosophical Inquiry of Linguistic Communication. Supervisor: Prof. Aristides Baltas. |
2007-2009 | Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, MA Cultural Management |
2004-2007 | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens & National Technical University of Athens, MSc Philosophy, History and Methodology of Science and Technology. |
1999-2003 | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, BA in Education Sciences. |
FAR 250 _ Philosophy of Art Ι
FAR 251 _ Philosophy of Art ΙΙ
FAR 350 _ Art theory and criticism
FAR 570 _ History of Aesthetic Theories (Postgraduate Programme in Art History and Theory)
FAR 572 _ Special Topics (Postgraduate Programme in Art History and Theory)