Research Forum ARCHIVE
Calendar: spring Term 2011
January to March
All events were held at The Courtauld
Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, unless
stated otherwise. Events were free and open to members of the public unless otherwise stated.
Modernities in south asian art
Emergence of Indian Modernism in the 1920s
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Professor Partha Mitter (University of Sussex)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Emilia Terracciano
Scholar, professor and renowned art historian Partha Mitter is Emeritus Professor of art history at University of Sussex, England. A member of Wolfson College, Oxford University; and past fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He is the author of Much Maligned Monsters. A History of European Reactions to Indian Art (Clarendon.....read more
raising dust: changing territories for art across europe
Thursday, 13 January 2011
18.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): Richard Appignanesi (writer, theorist and curator of Raising Dust); Marina
Grzinic
(artist); Dr Julian Stallabrass (The Courtauld Institute of Art); Dr Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld Institute of Art); and Boris Groys (art historian, philosopher and curator of the Russian pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale) (tbc)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld) and Sophie Benjamin (Calvert 22)
Calvert 22 and The Courtauld Institute of Art are proud to present the first in a unique series of collaborative talks.
Each talk in the series, which will be presented over the course of the academic year, takes an exhibition at Calvert 22 as a point of departure to address a range of emerging themes.
Speakers will include artists and curators who are participating in Calvert.....read more
Modern mind: joseph paul hodin at the tate archive
Friday, 14 January 2011
15.30 - 17.45, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): Adrian Glew (Tate Library and Archive), Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Alexandra Lazar (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission but numbers are limited. Advance booking is essential by noon Thursday 13 January. Please contact: ResearchForumEvents@courtauld.ac.uk
Organised by: Alexandra Lazar
This unique insight to the uncatalogued Tate Archive collection of art historian, aesthetician and critic Joseph Paul Hodin (1905-1995), comprising correspondence, writings, publications, printed ephemera, photographs and press cuttings from 1930s-90s, will provide an exciting starting point for researchers on postwar British as well.....read more
modernist games: cezanne and his card players
Saturday 15 January 2011
14.00 - 18.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre (with registration from 13.30)
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Paul Cézanne, The Card Players (ca.1893-96).Oil on canvas. © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
Speaker(s): T.J. Clark (University of California, Berkeley), Charlotte De Mille (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Andre Dombrowski (University of Pennsylvania).....
Ticket/entry details: £15 (£10 Courtauld staff/students and external students) Please send a cheque.....
Organised by: Dr Satish Padiyar (The Courtauld)
To coincide with the exhibition Cézanne’s Card Players, organised by The Courtauld Gallery in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Modernist Games brings together six speakers to reflect on the theme of chance and game playing.....read more
'a harmony parallel with nature': cezanne's music
Sunday 16 January 2011
15.00 - 17.00, the Foyer
The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
Paul Cézanne, The Harvest, 1877, ex. collection Emmanuel Chabrier, © Galerie Tamenaga
PROGRAMME:
Emmanuel Chabrier: from Pièce Pittoresque, 1880
Claude Debussy: L’Enfant Prodigue, 1884; from Pélleas et Mélisande 1902
Musical Director / Piano: Alisdair Kitchen
Director: Joseph Timmons
Cast to include: Emilie Alford; Katy Compton; Christopher Jacklin.....read more
2011 london seminar in roman art
An Interdisciplinary Study of the Mosaics from the House Of The Faun in Pompeii: Technique, Materials and Provenance
Monday, 17 January 2011
17.30, Royal Holloway London Annex, 2 Gower Street, London WC1, Seminar Room G3
Speaker(s): Cristina Boschetti (University of Nottingham)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Amanda Claridge (A.Claridge@rhul.ac.uk) and Will Wootton (Will.Wootton@kcl.ac.uk)
Supported by the Institute of Classical Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, The Courtauld Institute of Art's Research Forum
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Cruel and Tender: Conception, Display and Reception in Tate Modern’s 2003 Inaugural Exhibition of Photography
Monday, 17 January 2011
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Sara Knelman (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
spring 2011 Friends lecture series
Global Conceptualism
Total Enlightenment: Russian Conceptualism
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Boris Groys, Art Klyazma (detail), 2010. © Courtesy the artist.
Speaker(s): Boris Groys (Andrew W Mellon Foundation / Research Forum Mellon MA Visiting Professor at The Courtauld; and Professor of Slavic and Russian Studies at NYU)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Sarah Wilson and Professor Boris Groys
"The Soviet state had always been a kind of artwork designed according to the taste of the Party leadership and as the result of centralised planning of all aspects of Soviet life. In that sense, art was the most suitable.....read more
Research seminar: renaissance
The Illustrations of the Benci Aesop and Domestic Education in Quattrocento Florence
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
17.30, Seminar Room 1
BNCF MS II.II.83, f. 12, (1450-75) (detail)
Speaker(s): Federico Botana (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Susie Nash
Surrealism, Science fiction and comics
Saturday, 22 January 2011
10.00 - 19.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre (with registration from 09.30)
Speaker(s): Jeannette Baxter (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge), David Brittain (MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University), Barnaby Dicker ....
Ticket/entry details: £15 (£10 concessions and Courtauld staff and students), includes coffee, and reception.....
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.....read more
london seminar for early modern visual culture
Calypso's Island and the Lure of Enchantment in the Art of the French Regency
Monday, 24 January 2011
18.00, Seminar Room 6, Department of Art History, University College London, 20-21 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AG (entrance at back of 20 Gordon Square)
Speaker(s): Mary Sheriff (Art Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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)
Further information: This seminar series has been organised jointly by The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum and University College London.
Edinburgh and the european avant-garde
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
15.00 - 16.00, Research Forum South Room
Richard Demarco and Joseph Beuys, Free University, Dusseldorf, 1980. Courtesy of the Demarco Archive
Speaker(s): Richard Demarco (artist and promoter of the visual and performing arts, the Demarco European Art Foundation)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Klara Kemp-Welch
Richard Demarco is an artist and promoter of the visual and performing arts. He has been one of Scotland’s most influential advocates for contemporary art through his work at the Richard Demarco Gallery and the.....read more
queer family romance and collections of visual culture
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
17.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Elisàr von Kupffer (1872-1942), Painting of same-sex union with self-portraits, c.1910 (detail), now lost (probably destroyed in Berlin c. 1935). From Magnus Hirschfeld, Sexualwissenschaftlicher Bilderatlas zur Geschlechtskunde (Berlin and Vienna: Püttmann, 1932), 532.
Speaker(s): Whitney Davis (Professor of History & Theory of Ancient & Modern Art, University of California at Berkeley)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Caroline Arscott
In the context of intense and divisive present-day debates about the juridical status of "queer families" (for example, in controversies about "gay marriage" in the USA), Davis broadens the discussion by recalling that queer families by definition often cannot be mediated in relations of biological kin, however fantasmatic (as claimed in the traditions
of psychoanalysis), or even in relations of erotic and subcultural sociability, however proscribed in
.....read more
Research seminar: joint medieval work in progress and renaissance
The Anjou Bible Exhibition at Leuven: Reflections After the Event on Miniatures at the Court of Anjou-Naples c. 1340
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): John Lowden (The Courtauld) and Catherine Reynolds
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor John Lowden (john.lowden@courtauld.ac.uk)
research forum visiting conservator lecture
de Kooning and Pollock: The Actions of Painting
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
18.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Jackson Pollock, Full Fathom Five, 1947 (detail).
© 2010 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Speaker(s): Jim Coddington (Research Forum Visiting Conservator, The Courtauld; and Agnes Gund Chief Conservator, Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Aviva Burnstock
The distinctive painting styles of de Kooning and Pollock, the prime exemplars of American “action painting”, are, on close examination, the product of considered effort and thought. This lecture will examine their materials and techniques and how such a
consideration might be used to re-evaluate their work.....read more
performing art history
Art History and Radio
Thursday, 27 January 2011
18.00 – 20.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Steven Connor (Birkbeck College, University of London), Cathy Courtney (British Museum Sound Archives), James Hall (Guardian, Times, TLS), Jack Hartnell (The.....
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Jack Hartnell with Dr Katie Scott
“People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.” Ridley Scott
In the second of three discussions exploring and critiquing methods of delivering art historical research beyond traditional publishing routes in books or.....read more
material life of things: seminar
Weighing the Evidence
Friday, 28 January 2011
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Jim Coddington (Research Forum Visiting Conservator, The Courtauld; and Agnes Gund Chief Conservator, Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Drs Aviva Burnstock and Francesco Lucchini
Modern art has embraced many different means of and materials for creating art. In recent decades this impulse has developed at an increasingly frenetic pace. If we are to attempt to understand these diverse works from a material point of view how do we determine the priority of that material evidence? Can we refer to classic approaches to.....read more
2011 london seminar in roman art
Ossa quod vallavit Onyx: Roman Funerary Urns in Coloured Stone
Monday, 31 January 2011
17.30, Royal Holloway London Annex, 2 Gower Street, London WC1, Seminar Room G3
Speaker(s): Simona Perna (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Amanda Claridge (A.Claridge@rhul.ac.uk) and Will Wootton (Will.Wootton@kcl.ac.uk)
Supported by the Institute of Classical Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, The Courtauld Institute of Art's Research Forum
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Time-based Art: The Production of Contemporaneity
Monday, 31 January 2011
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Professor Boris Groys (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation / Research Forum Mellon MA Visiting Professor, The Courtauld Institute of Art; and Professor of Slavic and Russian Studies at NYU)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
spring 2011 Friends lecture series
Global Conceptualism
Art Without Work
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Video still from A Guiding Light, 2010, by Liam Gillick and Anton Vidokle. Courtesy of the artists, Performa, and Casey Kaplan, New York
Speaker(s): Anton Vidokle (artist and founder of e-flux)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Sarah Wilson and Professor Boris Groys
If the ultimate condition of production of art is life in the world, can art simply come about through a certain way of being with others? Is work essential for an art work to come into being? Vidokle's lecture will discuss conceptual and post-conceptual artistic
practices that place emphasis on producing conditions of
.....read more
Research seminar: renaissance
Surface and Substance: Locating Meaning in Donatello's Polychromed Sculpture
Wednesday, 2 February 2011 POSTPONED to Monday 7 March 2011
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Jim Harris (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Susie Nash
a discussion of the lens in contemporary art history
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
19.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): David Hockney CH, RA
Ticket/entry details: Due to unprecedented demand from Courtauld Students this event is now full and we are sorry to inform you that NO PLACES ARE AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC
Organised by: The Composite Order (Society, The Courtauld’s Student Union) (contact: jerome.hasler@courtauld.ac.uk)
It is an honour to welcome the celebrated painter, photographer and author David Hockney to The Courtauld.
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Most recently Hockney’s attention has turned to theories of optics and perspective in artistic production and technique throughout the history of painting. His seminal publication Secret Knowledge (Thames and Hudson, 2001) has......read more
research forum visiting professor lecture
Women's Time: Martin and Truitt in the Moment of Minimalism
Thursday, 3 February 2011
16.00 - 17.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Alexander Lieberman, Agnes Martin in her New York studio (detail), c. 1960
Speaker(s): Anne Wagner (Henry Moore Foundation Research Curator, Tate National; and Visiting Distinguished Professor, University of York )
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Caroline Arscott
For us moderns, time has changed. No longer does it feel like a river, or a piece of music setting the tempo of our dance. Instead it has become a quantity, an investment, which we save, borrow, waste and spend. Often we run out of it, though occasionally
we have a little to spare. Only then, like our machines, do we.....read more
research forum visiting professor SEminar
More on Time and Sculpture
Friday, 4 February 2011
10.00 - 12.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Anne Wagner (Henry Moore Foundation Research Curator, Tate National; and Visiting Distinguished Professor, University of York)
Ticket/entry details: Open to postgraduate students and history of art teaching staff
Organised by: Professor Caroline Arscott
This seminar follows on from Anne Wagner's lecture, Women's Time: Martin and Truitt in the Moment of Minimalism, at The Courtauld on Thursday 3 February 2011, with a broader discussion of sculpture and time, particularly as seen through a range of critical writings by Michael Fried, Rosalind Krauss, and others....read more
16th annual medieval postgraduate student colloquium
The Medieval Copy
Saturday, 5 February 2011
10.00 - 17.40, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre (with registration from 9.30)
Veronica pilgrim badge, 15th century (Image copyright Museum of London)
Speaker(s): Sarah J. Biggs (The Courtauld Institute of Art / British Library); Michael Carter (The Courtauld Institute of Art); Benedetta Chiesi (University of Florence.....
Ticket/entry details: Admission free, all welcome. No booking is necessary
Organised by: Jessica Berenbeim and other Medieval postgraduate students
Copies, mass-production, emulation, and originality have been significant and problematic concepts for the reception of medieval art and architecture in both its academic study and popular understanding. They continue to exert their influence on perceptions and scholarship.....read more
london seminar for early modern visual culture
The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Early Modern Caribbean
Monday, 7 February 2011
18.00, Seminar Room 6, Department of Art History, University College London, 20-21 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AG (entrance at back of 20 Gordon Square)
Speaker(s): Miles Ogborn (School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London)
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)
Further information: This seminar series has been organised jointly by The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum and University College London.
spring 2011 Friends lecture series
Global Conceptualism
Art as An Installation — Some History and Some Theory
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, Front Hall
Joseph kosuth. Photo: Luci Lux
Speaker(s): Joseph Kosuth (artist and Professor at IUAV - Istituto Universitario di Architettura, Venice, Italy)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission. N.B. Limited seats; first-come-first-served.
Organised by: Dr Sarah Wilson and Professor Boris Groys
This lecture is an historical and theoretical overview of installations as a specific and singularly postmodern practice of art, utilizing Joseph Kosuth's own recent permanent and temporary installations as.....read more
research forum visiting conservator lecture
Organic Materials in Wall Paintings: Their History and Identification
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): Francesca Pique (Consultant for the Getty Conservation Institute and Researcher at SUPSI, Lugano)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Sharon Cather
The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) has just completed a 7-year study of the elusive organic materials used liberally by wall painters throughout history: binding media, organic colorants, and original varnishes. Challenges in their identification has meant.....read more
Shows Of London
Nineteenth-Century Reading Group: On Clouds
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
17.30 – 18.30, Research Forum South Room
Cloud Chamber
Ticket/entry details: Open to academic staff and students of The Courtauld Institute of Art, King’s College London and other institutions
Organised by: Prof. Caroline Arscott (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Prof. Clare Pettitt and Prof. Josephine McDonagh (King's College London)
This is an interdepartmental/intercollegiate group studying Victorian Culture that meets regularly to discuss texts on street culture, representation, the Metropolis...read more
Caroline villers research fellowship
Technical Art Prehistory: Uncovering Technological Traditions and Social Choices in Palaeolithic Art Production
Thursday, 10 February 2011
18.00 - 19.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): Dr Rebecca Farbstein (Visiting Fellow, The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge; and Caroline Villers Research Fellow 2009-10, The Courtauld))
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Aviva Burnstock
The field of “technical art history” studies technological aspects of art production in relatively modern art made in the last several thousand years. This lecture presents the results of technological analysis of much older art, dating to the late Palaeolithic, c. 14,000—11,000 years before present. Focusing on technological choices, rather than the.....read more
research forum visiting conservator seminar
St Vitus Cathedral, Prague: Conservation of the 14th-century Last Judgement Mosaic
Friday, 11 February 2011
15.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Francesca Piqué (Consultant for the Getty Conservation Institute and Researcher at SUPSI, Lugano)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Sharon Cather
For most of its existence, the brilliant colours of the Last Judgement have been invisible, covered by corrosion formed after each past cleaning. Despite repeated restoration—the first as early as the 15th century—the problem persisted. In 1992, the Getty Conservation Institute and the Office of the President of the Czech Republic initiated.....read more
2011 london seminar in roman art
Roman Strigillated Sarcophagi: Finding Voices for a ‘Silent Majority’
Monday, 14 February 2011
17.30, Royal Holloway London Annex, 2 Gower Street, London WC1, Seminar Room G3
Speaker(s): Janet Huskinson (Open University)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Amanda Claridge (A.Claridge@rhul.ac.uk) and Will Wootton (Will.Wootton@kcl.ac.uk)
Supported by the Institute of Classical Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, The Courtauld Institute of Art's Research Forum
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Inside or Out? The German Modernist Woodblock and its Print
Monday, 14 February 2011
18.00, Seminar Room 1
Speaker(s): Niccola Shearman (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
a Conversation between stephen willats and hans ulrich obrist
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
17.30 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Stephen Willats, Meta Filter, 1973-1975 Speaker(s): Hans Ulrich Obrist and Stephen Willats
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld Institute of Art) in collaboration with Antony Hudek (Occasional Papers)
In 1973, Gallery House Press, London, published Stephen Willats' essay The Artist as an Instigator of Changes in Social Cognition and Behaviour. Drawing upon developments in cybernetics... read more
the courtauld institute of art and universita degli studi 'Federico II', naples: london/naples Roving seminar 2011
Showcasing New Research from Naples and London
Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 February 2011
09.30 - 12.45, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): include Dr Stefano d’Ovidio (Naples), Dr Bianca de Divitiis (Naples), Dr Alessandra Rullo (Naples), Dr Jim Harris (The Courtauld), Edward Payne (The Courtauld)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: The Courtauld Institute of Art and Università degli Studi ‘Federico II’, Naples (contact jim.harris@courtauld.ac.uk)
For the past three years The Courtauld Institute of Art and the Università degli Studi ‘Federico II’, Naples, have held an annual ‘roving seminar’, exploring Naples in a series of visits led by Professors
Francesco Caglioti, Francesco Aceto, Tomaso Montanari, Rosanna de Gennaro and Paola d'Alconzo
and a team of postdoctoral scholars and doctoral.... read more
london seminar for early modern visual culture
Engraving and Printing, Visibly on Matter and Invisibly on Hearts and Souls
Monday, 21 February 2011
18.00, Seminar Room 6, Department of Art History, University College London, 20-21 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AG (entrance at back of 20 Gordon Square)
Speaker(s): Judi Loach (Director of Graduate School of Humanities, Cardiff University)
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.
spring 2011 Friends lecture series
Global Conceptualism
How Do We Work? / Collective Production as an Aesthetic Gesture in some Yugoslav Conceptual Art Groups
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
OHO, We are the group OHO, 11 A4 typed texts on paper with photographs, 1970 (detail), Moderna galerija Ljubljana
Speaker(s): Zdenka Badovinac (Director, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Sarah Wilson and Professor Boris Groys
In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s there were many neo-avant-garde artists in Yugoslavia who worked in groups both because they shared similar aesthetic concepts and because group work provided better .....read more
research seminar: medieval work in progress
The Albani Psalter: One Man’s Spiritual Journey
Wednesday 23 February 2011
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Patricia Stirnemann (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, Paris)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor John Lowden (john.lowden@courtauld.ac.uk)
bergson and his postmodern and immanent legacies
Friday 25 February, 14.00 - 19.00 (with registration from 13.30)
Saturday, 26 February, 09.30 - 18.30 (with registration from 09.00)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre and Research Forum South Room, The Courtauld
'On écoute aux fenetres le cours de M. Bergson, Excelsior, 14 February 1914' ©. Mark Anliff, Inventing Bergson, Princeton, 1993
Speaker(s): Eric Alliez (Kingston University, London); Stella Baraklianou (University of Portsmouth); Howard Caygill (Kingston University, London); Felicity Coleman (Manchester Metropolitan University); Todd Cronan (Emory University); David Cunningham
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Ticket/entry details: £15 (£10 concessions and Courtauld staff and students), includes coffee, tea and reception. Please send a cheque made payable to ‘Courtauld.....
Organised by: Dr Charlotte de Mille (The Courtauld Institute of Art) with Prof. John Mullarkey (Kingston University) in association with The London Graduate School
In the past two decades there has been a resurgence of interest in Henri Bergson’s work in various areas of philosophy and cultural studies, in part stimulated by the growing popularity of recent writers who have.....read more
2011 london seminar in roman art
The Statue of Hadrian from Cyrene
Monday, 28 February 2011
17.30, Royal Holloway London Annex, 2 Gower Street, London WC1, Seminar Room G3
Speaker(s): Thorsten Opper (The British Museum)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Amanda Claridge (A.Claridge@rhul.ac.uk) and Will Wootton (Will.Wootton@kcl.ac.uk)
Supported by the Institute of Classical Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, The Courtauld Institute of Art's Research Forum
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Surface Tensions: Designing Femininity in 1950s America
Monday, 28 February 2011 POSTPONED (date to be advised)
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Dr. Rebecca Arnold (Oak Foundation Lecturer in History of Dress and Textiles, The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
annual Riha lecture
Ending David: Painting towards Death in Mars Disarmed by Venus and the Graces (1824)
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
17.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): Dr Satish Padiyar (Lecturer in 19th Century Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Caroline Arscott
Jacques-Louis David’s Mars Disarmed is a particularly rich staging of the dilemma of an ending, but has only come to be recognized as such through the modern cultural notion of ‘late style’. In recent years there has been renewed critical engagement with the problem of ‘late style’, and questions about endings continue to be raised in scholarly.....read more
performing art history
Art History and Internet
Thursday, 3 March 2011
18.00 - 20.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Charlotte Frost (Writtle School of Design, University of Essex); Jack Hartnell (The Courtauld Institute of Art); Daisy Jones (The Courtauld Institute of Art); Thomas Overton (King’s College London and British Library); Marquard Smith (University of Westminster)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Jack Hartnell with Dr Katie Scott
In the last of three discussions exploring and critiquing methods of delivering art historical research beyond traditional publishing routes in books or journals, the group will consider art history and the internet ...read more
the courtauld collections
Conservation and Art Historical Analysis: Works from The Courtauld Gallery
Friday, 4 March 2011
12.30 - 14.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Research Forum Research Associates Anna Cooper, Harriet Pearson, Roxanne Sperber and Alexandra Thom
Ticket/entry details: The Courtauld Institute of Art's research active staff and postgraduate students. RSVP by 12noon, Wednesday 2 March to Researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk if you plan to attend
Organised by: Dr Aviva Burnstock, Dr Caroline Campbell and Professor Caroline Arscott
This is the first of two presentations by this year's Research Associates appointed to the Courtauld Collections project. Two Research Associates, studying art history, with two more from the Conservation & Technology Department (easels) will present the results of their research, on two paintings from The Courtauld Gallery - a fourteenth- century Florentine panel painting and a sixteenth-century painting of “Job and his Comforters” - which are undergoing conservation.
Modernities in south asian art
Reflections around Indian Modernism
Friday, 4 March 2011
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Grant Watson (Senior Curator, Iniva)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Emilia Terracciano
Two opposing paradigms, the eurocentric and the planetary, characterise the question of modernity. The seminar group 'Modernities in South Asia' will discuss issues around modernity and modernism in the context of South Asian art and architecture. The forum will give academics, researchers and curators working in this field the.....read more
Research seminar: renaissance
Surface and Substance: Locating Meaning in Donatello's Polychromed Sculpture
Monday 7 March 2011
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker: Jim Harris (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Susie Nash
Above: detail from Donatello, Entombment, 1449, pietra di Nanto, polychromy; Padua, Santo, High Altar
Below: Detail of polychromy sample from Donatello, Entombment
spring 2011 Friends lecture series
Global Conceptualism
One and Three Ideas: Conceptualism Before, During and After Conceptual Art
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Art & Language (Terry Smith), Art & Language Australia, 1975 (detail)
Speaker(s): Terry Smith (Andrew W Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Sarah Wilson and Professor Boris Groys
It is a nice paradox that the term “conceptualism” came into art world existence after the advent of Conceptual Art –– most prominently and programmatically in the exhibition Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin.....read more
Shows Of London
Nineteenth-Century Reading Group: On Rocks
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
17.30 – 18.30, Research Forum South Room
Illustrated London News Ticket/entry details: Open to academic staff and students of The Courtauld Institute of Art, King’s College London and other institutions
Organised by: Prof. Caroline Arscott (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Prof. Clare Pettitt and Prof. Josephine McDonagh (King's College London)
This is an interdepartmental/intercollegiate group studying Victorian Culture that meets regularly to discuss texts on street culture, representation, the Metropolis...read more
the 2011 courtauld institute of art postgraduate symposium
Showcasing Research
Thursday 10 March, 13.15 - 17.40
Friday, 11 March, 11.30 - 18.20
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Auguste Rodin, Le Penseur, on the grave of Rodin, bronze, 19th century, Musée Rodin, Ile-de-France, France © The Courtauld Institute of Art.Speaker(s): Deborah Babbage, Clare Backhouse, Ana Balona de Sa’Oliveira, Meredtith Brown, Michael Carter, Samuel Elmer, Chris Gardner, Emily Gray, Ashley Robertson Givens, Brandon Kline, Elizabeth McDougall, Joanna Milk Mac Farland,.....
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Research Forum Postgraduate Advisory Group and PhD students
Showcasing Research 2011 will bring together third-year research students working on art within a broad range of periods, media and themes. From erotic art in classical Rome to Rembrandt's marriage portraits to modernist Indian photography, the.....read more
2011 london seminar in roman art
Hellenistic, Roman and Contemporary Sculpture in Late Antique Ephesos: The Case of the Upper Agora and the Theatre
Monday, 14 March 2011
17.30, Royal Holloway London Annex, 2 Gower Street, London WC1, Seminar Room G3
Speaker(s): Maria Aurenhammer (Austrian Archaeological Institute, Vienna)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Amanda Claridge (A.Claridge@rhul.ac.uk) and Will Wootton (Will.Wootton@kcl.ac.uk)
Supported by the Institute of Classical Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, The Courtauld Institute of Art's Research Forum
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Adolphe Yvon’s Capture of the Tour de Malakoff – The Crimean War at the Salon of 1857
Monday, 14 March 2011
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Julia Bischoff (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
Unavailable Knowledge: Eve in the Wax Anatomical Cabinet
Monday, 14 March 2011
18.00, Seminar Room 6, Department of Art History, University College London, 20-21 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AG (entrance at back of 20 Gordon Square)
Speaker(s): Rose Marie San Juan (History of Art, University College London)
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)
Further information: This seminar series has been organised jointly by The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum and University College London.
aah 2011 conference preview
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
10.00 - 12.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Courtauld graduate student Edward Payne
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Jim Harris
For the past several years the Research Forum has awarded travel scholarships to Courtauld Institute of Art postgraduate students giving research papers at the Association of Art Historians Conference.
This year’s scholarship is awarded to Edward Payne for the 37th AAH Annual Conference, which takes place at the University of Warwick, 31 March - 2 April 2011.
icma at the courtauld lecture series 2010-11
The Bohuns and their Books: Illuminated Manuscripts for Aristocrats in Fourteenth-Century England
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
17.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Lichtenthal Psalter, Baden-Baden, Lichtenthal Abbey Archiv MS 2, Psalm 119, fol. 124v
Speaker(s): Lucy Freeman Sandler (Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History Emerita, New York University)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Joanna Cannon
This lecture is presented by The Courtauld Institute of Art in association with the International Center of Medieval Art, New York, and with the support of The Courtauld Institute of Art's Research Forum. The International Center of Medieval Art promotes the study of the visual arts of .....read more
material life of things: lecture
What is a Fragment? Forms of the Material, the Cultural, & the Interdisciplinary
Thursday, 17 March 2011
18.30 - 20.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Ground Zero, July 2009
Speaker(s): Dr Dan Hicks FSA (University of Oxford); Respondent: Daniel Miller (Professor of Material Culture, Department of Anthropology, University College London)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Francesco Lucchini
This paper reflects upon the status of the idea of 'the fragment' in contemporary interdisciplinary material culture studies. In doing so, it uses anthropological thinking, to interrogate how we comprehend the forms.....read more
material life of things: symposium
Materiality and Life Metaphors: Three Dialogues
Friday, 18 March 2011
15.00 - 18.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Tarnya Cooper (National Portrait Gallery); Hanna Barbara Hölling (University of Amsterdam); Pip Laurenson (Tate); Angela Matyssek (Philipps-Universität Marburg); Katie Scott (The Courtauld Institute of Art); Hannah Williams (St John's College Oxford)
Ticket/entry details: All welcome but numbers are limited. Advance booking by Tuesday 15 March is essential for catering purposes. Contact: ResearchForumEvents@courtauld.ac.uk
Organised by: Drs. Francesco Lucchini and Kate Gerry
Bringing together the work of art historians, conservators, and curators, the papers presented in this symposium will explore the relationships between what we call ‘art’ and the material substances by which it is transmitted. In a series of papers presented in conversation with each other, the speakers will discuss issues of.....read more
expanded conceptualism
Friday 18 and Saturday 19 March 2011
Friday 18 March, 18.30 - 20.00, East Room, Level 7
Saturday 19 March, 10.30- 18.00, Starr Auditorium
Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG (note venue)
Speaker(s): include Boris Groys (Research Forum / Andrew W Mellon Foundation MA Visiting Professor at The Courtauld; and Professor of Slavic and Russian Studies at NYU)
Ticket/entry details: £25 (£18 concessions), booking recommended, via Tate online or call 020 7887 8888
Organised by: Tate Modern in collaboration with the Research Forum, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Tate Modern presents a major symposium dedicated to a radical rethinking and expanding of the normative paradigms of Conceptual art, one of the most influential tendencies of the last 40 years. Examining Conceptual art from a variety of geographical, historical and theoretical viewpoints, noted scholars and artists contribute to.....read more
Research seminar: history of photography
Long-tailed-crowd-sourced-socially-enterprising-game-playing-platform-sensitive-open-sourced-world
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Charlotte Cotton (National Media Museum)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Alexandra Moschovi , Julian Stallabrass and Benedict Burbridge
Charlotte Cotton is the creative director of the Media Space - a partnership between the Science Museum and the National Media Museum that will open in London in 2012.
The History of Photography research seminar series aims to be a discursive.....read more
2011 london seminar in roman art
Recutting Roman Portraits: Problems in Interpretation and Using New Technology in Finding Possible Solutions
Monday, 28 March 2011
17.30, Royal Holloway London Annex, 2 Gower Street, London WC1, Seminar Room G3
Speaker(s): John Pollini (University of Southern California)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Amanda Claridge (A.Claridge@rhul.ac.uk) and Will Wootton (Will.Wootton@kcl.ac.uk)
Supported by the Institute of Classical Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, The Courtauld Institute of Art's Research Forum
rex butler and ian mclean double lecture I
The Artworld and World Art: Terry Smith's 'Provincialism Problem' Revisited
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
14.00 - 16.00, Research Forum South Room
Colin McCahon, Victory over Death 2 (detail), 1970. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Speaker(s): Professor Ian McLean (University of Western Australia)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Anthony Gardner (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Terry Smith's essay 'The provincialism problem', published in 1974 in Artforum, was the first shot fired from the periphery at the centre and specifically at what Arthur Danto had ten years earlier dubbed the 'Artworld'......read more
rex butler and ian mclean double lecture II
Colin McCahon’s Afterlife
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
14.00 - 16.00, Research Forum South Room
Colin McCahon, Victory over Death 2 (detail), 1970. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Speaker(s): Associate Professor Rex Butler (University of Queensland)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Anthony Gardner (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Thomas Crow once wrote in Artforum that the work of New Zealand painter Colin McCahon was at least the equal of Barnett Newman’s and Mark Rothko’s. But what would it be like living in faraway and provincial .....read more
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