Maria Stavrinaki Author

Maria Stavrinaki is Associate Professor of Art History and Theory at the Universite Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne. She has worked extensively on the art of the 20th century and is particularly interested in questions of time and history in modernity, working at the crossroads of artist practices and discourses, the construction of the human sciences, and political questions. Her most recent book is Saisis par la prehistoire: Enquete sur l art et le temps des modernes (2019), translated into English by Zone Books (Transfixed by Prehistory: An Inquiry into Modern Art and Time, 2022). She co-curated the exhibition Prehistoire: Une enigme moderne at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2019), and is currently preparing an exhibition on art in the atomic age for the Musee d Art Moderne de Paris (2024).