Our Faculty Member Ahu Antmen's Article
Our faculty member Ahu Antmen's article "Nazmi Ziya and Turkish Impressionism," contributed to the book Globalizing Impressionism: Reception, Translation and Transnationalism (Yale University Press, 2020), was introduced by the prestigious art magazine Art in America as one of the five fundamental source books on the Impressionist movement. Edited by Alexis Clark and Frances Fowle, Globalizing Impressionism is noted among the primary source books in art history literature on Impressionism alongside Linda Nochlin's Impressionism and Post-Impressionism 1874-1904 and Robert L. Herbert's Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, for shedding light on previously overlooked geographies and artists in the movement's history. Ahu Antmen's article evaluates the local and international significance of the 1914 Generation artists, particularly Nazmi Ziya Güran, whose works are represented in the S.U. Sakıp Sabancı Museum collection, and who are referred to as the "Turkish Impressionists." The article examines why these artists, who were active from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey, turned to the Impressionist movement and explores their unique approaches.
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