Research Forum
Calendar Archive: SUMmer Term 2010
April to July
All events were held at The Courtauld
Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, unless
stated otherwise.
Artist's Lecture by Vitaly komar
Socialist Realism and Symbolism
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Vitaly Komar, Lenin with Crown
Speaker(s): Vitaly Komar (artist)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Becky Haghpanah-Shirwan, Nadim Samman and Dr Sarah Wilson
“The consequences of world wars, of social and scientific breakthroughs, have eroded the connection between fragments of what once was a continuous experience of the world. In these conditions I turn to visual symbols and their mysterious quality of bringing together unrelated images and concepts.” Vitaly Komar.....read more
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Episodes from the Visual Culture of Paris in the Era of Thomas Edison
Monday, 26 April 2010 CANCELLED
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Hollis Clayson (Department of History, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
GIOTTO's O: LECTURE I
Giotto among the Money-Changers
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
15.00 - 16.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): Julian Gardner (Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, University of Warwick)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Giotto's O, contact: joanna.cannon@courtauld.ac.uk
This is the first of two lectures this afternoon which discuss Giotto's two closely related commissions: the Bardi Chapel in Santa Croce, and the decorative programme of the crossing in the Lower Church of San Francesco at Assisi.
GIOTTO's O: LECTURE iI
The Lull before the Storm
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
17.00 - 18.15, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): Julian Gardner (Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, University of Warwick)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Giotto's O, contact: joanna.cannon@courtauld.ac.uk
This is the second of two lectures this afternoon which discuss Giotto's two closely related commissions: the Bardi Chapel in Santa Croce, and the decorative programme of the crossing in the Lower Church of San Francesco at Assisi.
transeuropa
What is Democracy?: A Conversation Between Oliver Ressler and Stephen Wright
Thursday, 6 May 2010
18.00 - 19.15, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Oliver Ressler, What is Democracy? Image courtesy of the artist.
Speaker(s): Oliver Ressler (artist, Austria), Stephen Wright (art critic and philosopher)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld Institute fo Art) and Lorenzo Marsili (European Alternatives)
On the day of the UK elections, Austrian artist Oliver Ressler will discuss his latest project “What is democracy?” with art critic and philosopher Stephen Wright. The conversation will address the relation between artistic ...... read more
Leonardo da vinci society lecture 2010
A New Portrait by Leonardo. How do we know?
Friday, 7 May 2010
18.00 - 19.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): Martin Kemp (University of Oxford) and Pascal Cotte (Directeur de recherche scientifique, Lumiere Technology S.A.S.)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Prof Francis Ames-Lewis
New Light in dark places: recent discoveries & new directions in anglo-saxon studies
Saturday, 8 May 2010
09.50 - 18.20, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre (with registration from 09.15)
Photo: courtesy of the Staffordshire Hoard website (www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk)
Speaker(s): Jane Hawkes (University of York), John Hines (Cardiff University), John Mitchell (University of East Anglia), David Park (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Steven .....
Ticket/entry details: £15 (£10 concessions and Courtauld staff and students). Please send a cheque made payable to ‘Courtauld Institute of Art’ to: Research Forum Events Coordinator, The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, clearly stating that you wish to book for the ‘New Light in .....
Organised by: Dr Laura Cleaver and Professor David Park
In recent years significant advances have been made in the field of Anglo-Saxon studies. The discovery in July 2009 of the Staffordshire Hoard, comprising over 1600 objects, is the latest in a series of remarkable..... read more
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Portraits of Napoleon III by Hippolyte Flandrin and Alexandre Cabanel
Monday, 10 May 2010
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Ashley Givens (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
London seminar for Early Modern Visual Culture
Ephemeral Everyday: Sounds of Seeing in the Early Modern City
Monday, 10 May 2010
18.00, Seminar Room 1
Speaker(s): Katie Scott (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Rose Marie San Juan (r.sanjuan@ucl.ac.uk) and Joanna Woodall (joanna.woodall@courtauld.ac.uk)
The French trade card is the principal object of inquiry. By reading its forms and formats with and against other representations of trade and the city such as Cris de Paris and Vues d’optiques, this seminar presentation hopes to offer an account of the trade card's evolution in the emergent market culture of eighteenth-century Paris as both instrument of business and sign of the city. Issues of time, place, sight and sound, of history and modernity are highlighted.'
This seminar series has been organised jointly by The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum and University College London.
The concise dictionary of dress
Defining an Exhibition - Judith Clark and Adam Phillips in Conversation with Rebecca Arnold
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Judith Clark, Preparatory sketch for the word 'Armoured', 2010. Image courtesy of the artist.
Speaker(s): Judith Clark (London College of Fashion), Adam Phillips (psychoanalyst and writer), chaired by Rebecca Arnold (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Rebecca Arnold
Commissioned by Artangel, The Concise Dictionary of Dress re-describes clothing in terms of anxiety, wish and desire, as a series of definitions created by psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and accompanying installations designed and assembled by fashion curator Judith ..... read more
roman trails in south india: new finds and interpretations
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Dr Sethuraman Suresh (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), Chennai Chapter)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Peter Stewart / Debby Swallow
Dr Suresh is a freelance archaeologist and an expert on Roman artefacts found in India. His publications include Roman Antiquities in Tamilnadu (1992) and Symbols of Trade: Roman and Pseudo-Roman Objects Found in India (2004). He is a former Research Fellow at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, and the French ..... read more
the 2010 peter fuller memorial lecture
Twenty Years Less Fuller
Thursday, 13 May 2010
18.00 - 19.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Jane Brown/Observer, 1988
Speaker(s): David Cohen (Gallery Director, New York Studio School, and Publisher, artcritical.com)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Peter Fuller was a writer whose tastes and priorities evolved in tandem with shifting intellectual and spiritual concerns. A man of a restless imagination with an agitational approach to the art world, he made very public the constant search for value and meaning. The twentieth anniversary of his death is a moment for speculation: How have his..... read more
Michelangelo study day
Monday, 17 May 2010
09.30 - 17.30, Prints & Drawings Room
Ticket/entry details: by invitation only
Organised by: Dr Stephanie Buck
In conjunction with The Courtauld Gallery's exhibition, Michelangelo's Dream (18 February to 16 May 2010) this study day will discuss topics such as the drawing technique of Michelangelo’s ‘presentation drawings’ and their state of conservation, questions of date and attribution, the use of the ‘presentation drawings’ in prints and other media, the meaning of The Dream, and the relationship between Michelangelo and Tommaso de’ Cavalieri.
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Deconstructing the Odalisque in the 1920s: Henri Matisse’s At the Seaside (Odalisque on the Terrace) and Orientalist Cinema
Monday, 17 May 2010
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Nikoo Paydar (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
Research seminar: REnaissance
Leonardo's Drawings of Female Anatomy and His "fassciculu medjcine latino"
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Dr Carmen Bambach (Curator of Drawings, Metropolitan Museum New York)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Susie Nash
This paper will present an interdisciplinary approach to Leonardo's drawings and manuscripts, using archaeological evidence from drawings applied to a larger understanding of the field.
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Corot, Rousseau, and Ideas of Nature
Monday, 24 May 2010
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Marion Richards (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
London seminar for Early Modern Visual Culture
Making Love: Thomas Banks' Camadeva and the Discourses of British India c.1790
Monday, 24 May 2010
18.00, Seminar Room 1
Speaker(s): Dr Sarah Monks (University of East Anglia)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Rose Marie San Juan (r.sanjuan@ucl.ac.uk) and Joanna Woodall (joanna.woodall@courtauld.ac.uk)
This seminar series has been organised jointly by The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum and University College London.
Research seminar: medieval work in progress
Heirlooms and Ancient Objects: Connecting the Lives of Medieval People and Things
Thursday, 27 May 2010
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Roberta Gilchrist (University of Reading)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor John Lowden
Research seminar: History of Photography
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera
Friday, 28 May 2010
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Sandra Phillips (Curator of Photographs, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Alexandra Moschovi (alexandra.moschovi@courtauld.ac.uk), Julian Stallabrass (julian.stallabrass@courtauld.ac.uk) and Benedict Burbridge (benedict.burbridge@courtauld.ac.uk)
This seminar will discuss the exhibition, Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, organised by Tate in conjunction with San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which will take place at Tate Modern in summer 2010 and which will then travel to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the autumn of 2010, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis ..... read more
Research seminar: medieval work in progress
Fine Bibles at Durham in the Later Middle Ages
Thursday, 3 June 2010
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Richard Gameson (Durham University)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor John Lowden
New Approaches to British Art, 1939-1969
Friday 4 June and Saturday 5 June 2010
10.45 – 18.15, Friday 4 June (registration from 10.15)
10.00 – 17.45, Saturday 5 June (registration from 9.30)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Roger Hilton, January 1957, 1957. London, Tate Britain (Photo: © Tate, London 2009)
Speaker(s): include Jan Cox (University of Bristol), John J Curley ( Wake Forest University), Nathan Dunne (London Consortium), Alex Potts (University of Michigan), Chris Stephens (Tate), Anne Wagner (University of California, Berkeley) .....
Ticket/entry details: £45 (£25 concessions and Courtauld staff and students), includes coffee, tea, lunch, reception. Please send a cheque made payable to ‘Courtauld Institute of Art’ to: Research Forum Events Coordinator, .....
Organised by: Lisa Tickner and David Peters Corbett
Although British art has benefited from an extraordinary growth in scholarly studies over the last decade the rich history of the years between 1939 and 1969 remains relatively underexplored. Despite the recent ..... read more
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Sunil Janah: Photography around the 1943 Bengal Famine
Monday, 7 June 2010
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Emilia Terracciano (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
Research seminar: REnaissance
Michelangelo's Presentation Drawings as a Career Strategy
Wednesday, 9 June 2010 (note change of date and time)
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Dr Charles Robertson (Oxford Brookes University)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Susie Nash
Charles Robertson’s talk relates to the exhibition, Michelangelo’s Dream, at The Courtauld Gallery (18 February to 16 May 2010)
Teaching Visual Arts in the UK and in France: A Comparative Perspective
09.45 - 16.00, Monday, 14 June 2010, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
09.30 - 15.00, Tuesday, 15 June 2010, The French Institute, London
Speaker(s) include: Dr Christopher Breward, Head of Research, Victoria and Albert Museum, London and Dr Philippe Bordes, Head of Research, INHA, Paris
Ticket/entry details: This conference is open to all and free of charge but prior booking is necessary. For enquiries and booking please contact: teachartconf@courtauld.ac.uk
Organised by: Alice Odin
This two-day conference, hosted by The Courtauld Institute of Art (Monday 14 June 2010) and The French Institute, London (Tuesday 15 June 2010) will investigate the way in which visual arts are taught and brought to life in Britain and in France ....read more
Research seminar: REnaissance
Nameless: Valuing Anonymous Drawings of 15th and 16th Century Italy
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Dr Alison Wright (University College London)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Susie Nash
Dr Alison Wright is currently preparing an exhibition on anonymous drawings.
Medieval Art in Theory: A CONFERENCE
Friday, 18 June 2010
10.00 – 17.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre (with registration from 9.30am)
Photo: S. Whatling, Chartres Cathedral (detail)
Speaker(s): include Peter Bokody (Central European University, Budapest), Richard Braude (The Warburg Institute), Spike Bucklow (Hamilton Kerr Institute).....
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission but pre-booking is required. Please contact.....
Organised by: Dr Laura Cleaver
The Medieval Art in Theory project aims to find new ways of interrogating familiar objects by considering medieval art and architecture in the light of modern .....read more
second
early modern symposium
Art and Presence
Calls for Papers Deadline:
Thursday 1 July 2010
Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (after Raffaello Sanzio).1630 (detail).© The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
Conference to take place:
Saturday, 20 November 2010
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Historically and culturally specific, the ‘work of art’ is contingent on a series of social relationships and mediations that seem to emerge when considering the relationship between representation and presence. This one-day symposium explores the relationship between viewers and art makers from .....call for papers
The Material Life of THings: symposium
Objects Making History: New Approaches to Material Evidence in Medieval Studies
Friday 9 July 2010
14.30 - 18.30, Research Forum South Room
Reliquary from Shrine of St Oda (detail), The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, ac. no. 57.519. Photo: © Image Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum
Speaker(s): Martina Bagnoli (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore), Nikolas Drosos (The Graduate Center, City University of New York), Kate Gerry (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore), Francesco Lucchini (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Theo Riches (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), Kathryn Rudy (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: All welcome but numbers are limited. Advance booking by 12 noon Tuesday 6 July is essential...
Organised by: Drs Francesco Lucchini and Kate Gerry
Throughout the Middle Ages, manuscripts, buildings, and many portable objects, serving both secular and liturgical functions, were made to be used, and to be used for a long time. As these works continued to be used.....read more
exhibiting research iv
Dizziness, Delusion and Devotion: The Extremes of Viewership Then and Now
Tuesday 13 July 2010
18.00 - 19.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): include Mark Fairnington (artist), Edward Payne (The Courtauld Institute of Art). Chaired by Jack Hartnell (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: MA Curating the Art Museum in collaboration with the Research Forum
Using Stendhal and Jerusalem syndrome as a lens, this Exhibiting Research discussion takes as its theme the viewing experience. It runs parallel to the MA Curating the Art Museum exhibition Blood Tears Faith Doubt, Historical and Contemporary Encounters, which juxtaposes works from Christian visual tradition and contemporary works which.....read more
Future conferences
Socialeast seminar on networks and sociability in eastern european art
Saturday 23 October 2010
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Call For Papers Deadline:
Monday 15 March 2010
The SocialEast Seminar on Networks and Sociability in East European Art provides a forum for the presentation of new research into practices of informal exchange and patterns of alternative communication between experimental artists in the Eastern Bloc. This seminar explores the ways in which unauthorised artistic ideas were able to transgress national and ideological boundaries through networks of friendship and artistic..... call for papers
second early modern symposium
Art and Presence
Saturday, 20 November 2010
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (after Raffaello Sanzio).1630 (detail) .© The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
Calls for Papers Deadline:
Thursday 1 July 2010
Historically and culturally specific, the ‘work of art’ is contingent on a series of social relationships and mediations that seem to emerge when considering the relationship between representation and presence. This one-day symposium explores the relationship between viewers and art makers from .....call for papers
Surrealism, Science fiction and comic books
Call For Papers Deadline:
Sunday, 1 August 2010
Conference to take place:
Saturday 22 January 2011
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
In his 1976 essay ‘Science Fiction and Allied Literature,’ David Ketterer wrote ‘it is rather surprising that the considerable affinity which exists between Surrealism and SF has not attracted more attention.’ This observation was repeated in 1997 by Roger Bozzetto and Arthur B. Evans, who lamented that the relations between.....call for papers
last orders? the art and architecture of religious orders in england, c1350-1540
Call For Papers Deadline:
1 November 2010
Evesham Abbey (detail). Photo: Courtesy of Laura Cleaver
Conference to take place:
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
In contrast to the arts of the so-called ‘golden age’ of English religious life during the High Middle Ages, the visual culture of subsequent generations of monks, nuns, and canons has received little attention. Recent scholarship, however, has challenged the long-held consensus that the Late Middle Ages was a period of decline.....call for papers
Intersections: Architecture and Poetry
Friday 11 - Saturday 12 February, 2011 (note dates may be revised)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Poetry and architecture, brought together by Gaston Bachelard in his seminal investigation of lived-in space, are art-forms that nevertheless continue critically to be considered broadly apart from one another. The one concrete and three-dimensional, the other abstract and metaphorical, few explicit links have been made between the two. Yet..... read more
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