Vardan Azatyan Discusses Art History and Nationalism in ARTMargins Interview

ARTMargins Online published an interview in October 2015 featuring art historian Vardan Azatyan, conducted by Angela Harutyunyan from Beirut. Azatyan serves as Associate Professor of Art History and Theory at Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts and teaches at Yerevan's Institute of Contemporary Art. His academic career includes teaching positions at Columbia University and the Dutch Art Institute. Azatyan has authored the book 'Art History and Nationalism' published in Yerevan by Actual Arvest in 2012. He co-edited 'Cultural Memory' with Malcolm Miles in 2010 and has translated works by George Berkeley and David Hume into Armenian. His scholarly articles have appeared in Oxford Art Journal, Springerin, and ARTMargins. The conversation explores themes of art history's relationship with nationalism and the challenge of understanding familiar cultural contexts.