Eleni Iliadis (1895-1975). An Ottoman Greek woman painter in end-of-Empire Istanbul Eleni Iliadis (1895-1975). Une artiste grecque ottomane dans l'Istanbul fin-de-siècle

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2018-01-01

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Tongo Overfield Shaw, Gizem

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This article traces the early success of an Ottoman Greek woman artist, Eleni Iliadis, in the Istanbul art world during the First World War and her subsequent disappearance from Turkish art history after the foundation of the Republic in 1923. Drawing on revisionist and feminist approaches to art history, the paper makes visible Iliadis’ hidden history – her art education in Munich, the exhibitions she participated in and the awards and state patronage she received in wartime Istanbul, especially for her recently rediscovered painting Kitaracı (Guitar Player). I examine the gender politics of art education, production, and reception in the early twentieth-century art world and argue that Iliadis’ identity as a woman and non-Muslim artist presented a challenge to a male-dominated and turkified national art history that eventually erased her story from cultural memory.

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Eleni Iliadis, Ottoman Empire, Women artists, Turkification, First World War, Cultural memory

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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85069500155&origin=inward
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/96912

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Clio: Histoire, Femmes et Societes

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https://doi.org/10.4000/clio.14854

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Article

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G. Tongo Overfield Shaw, “Eleni Iliadis (1895-1975). An Ottoman Greek woman painter in end-of-Empire Istanbul Eleni Iliadis (1895-1975). Une artiste grecque ottomane dans l’Istanbul fin-de-siècle,” Clio: Histoire, Femmes et Societes, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 43–67, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85069500155&origin=inward.