Research Forum
Calendar: Summer Term 2012
March to July
All events are held at The Courtauld
Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
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stated otherwise. Events are free and open to members of the public unless otherwise stated.
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london roman art seminar 2012
In Search of Senators Deceased: Context Matters
Monday, 26 March 2012
17.30, Royal Holloway London Annex (11 Bedford Square / 2 Gower Street with entrance on Montague Place), London WC1E 6DP, Seminar Room G3
Speaker(s): Barbara Borg (Exeter 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
Illuminating the Mind: researching performance; performing research
A collaboration with The Opera Group’s Future Bodies
Monday, 26 March 2012
18.30-20.30, The Anatomy Theatre and Museum, King’s College, London
Boris Blacher: Abstrakte Oper Nr I, 1953: ‘schmerz’
Etoile Chaville (singer/dancer); Dan Large (lighting)
Frederic Wake-Walker (Artistic Director)
Speaker(s): Edward Campbell (University of Aberdeen), Charlotte de Mille (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Frederic Wake-Walker (The Opera Group)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission but numbers are limited. Advance booking required....
Organised by: Dr Charlotte de Mille (The Courtauld Institute of Art) with the Opera Group
Illuminating the Mind presents the discoveries from a week of performance research by a diverse range of practitioners exploring sensation, disorder, and the relationship between visual and aural aesthetics. The project takes as a case-study an extract of .....read more
buddhist Art forum
Wednesday 11 to Saturday 14 April 2012
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Lighting butter lamps before the 16th-century wall paintings of Tamshing Monastery, Bhutan . Photo: Research Project on the Wall Paintings of Bhutan (The Courtauld Institute and the Department of Culture of Bhutan) 2009.Ticket/entry details: This event is now fully booked.....
Organised by: David Park and Kuenga Wangmo (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
This Forum will be a major event of an exceptional kind, seeking to address the philosophical issues concerning Buddhism and art in a profound and holistic way. Drawing contributors from widely varied backgrounds from Asia and the rest of the world, the Forum will have four overarching themes dealing with Buddhist art: definition; creation and function; conservation; and its role in..... read more
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Art Made of and With Audiences: Aspects of Participation
Monday, 16 April 2012
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Kaija Kaitavuori (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
research forum visiting conservator lecture
Merging and Emerging Images: Layer and Metamorphosis in Picasso’s Art
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Pedro Mañach (detail), 1901. Oil on canvas. 105.5 x 70.2cm. Chester Dale Collection. 1963.10.53 (TMS 46528). Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Speaker(s): Ann Hoenigswald (Senior Conservator of Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Aviva Burnstock
There are numerous examples of Pablo Picasso painting over existing compositions, but this was rarely done simply because the artist was disappointed with the image or unable to afford new canvas. In many instances Picasso incorporated elements of the earlier work into the subsequent one and allowed shapes, forms and ideas to reemerge in a new context. X-radiographs and infrared images, as well as clues on the surface of.....read more
Research seminar: history of photography
Karl Pawek's Post-fascist Family of Man: A Transformed World
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Wolf Strache, Berlin Kurfurstendamm after an air raid, 1943Speaker(s): Dr Sarah Edith James (History of Art, University College London)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Julian Stallabrass and Pei-Kuei Tsai
In 1964, the major photo-exhibition What is Man? opened in West Germany before going on to tour the world. It was organised by the Austrian photo-curator and editor Karl Pawek in homage to Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man, which, frequently criticised as American cold war propaganda, had begun its European tour in West Berlin in 1955. If Steichen’s show purported to reveal the constancy of human nature throughout the world.....read more
research forum visiting conservator seminar
New Painting/New Surfaces: Nineteenth-Century Matte Paints
Thursday, 19 April 2012
16.00 - 18.00, Research Forum South Room
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), Alfred la Guigne, 1894. Oil on cardboard. 65.6 x 50.4cm. Chester Dale Collection. 1963.10.220 (TMS 46695). Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.Speaker(s): Ann Hoenigswald (Senior Conservator of Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Aviva Burnstock
The attention given to matte surfaces on nineteenth century paintings revealed artists’ interest in modernity and although the decision to varnish or not played a role in producing such an effect, the selection and the manipulation of the paint media was equally as significant. Peinture à l’essence used by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec or peinture à la colle or distemper used by Edouard Vuillard are just two examples of paint which produced.....read more
the healing presence of art
Friday, 20 April 2012
18.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Piero della Francesca, Madonna della Misericordia, detail of Misericordia Polyptych, 1445–61, Pinacoteca Comunale, Sansepolcro
Speaker(s): Richard Cork (art critic, historian, broadcaster, exhibition curator, and former Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University and Senior Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Deborah Swallow
Richard Cork gives an illustrated talk about his new book, a richly illustrated history of western art in hospitals.
Between birth and death, many of life's most critical moments occur in hospital, and they deserve to take place in surroundings that match their significance.....read more
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Whislter Dispelled?
Monday, 23 April 2012
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): James Day (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
Corpus of romanesque sculpture in britain and ireland annual lecture 2012
The Mason and the Metalworker: Imitation and Status in the Romanesque World
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Twelfth-century cross (detail) at Dysert O'Dea in County Clare (Ireland). Photo: Roger Stalley
Speaker(s): Professor Roger Stalley (Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, Trinity College Dublin)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Karen Impey and Jill Franklin
It is well known that Romanesque stone carving occasionally imitates metalwork, though the precise relationship between the two arts has proved difficult to define. In some cases imitation may reflect the initiative of local masons or even the intervention of professional goldsmiths, as some scholars have argued. There were clearly many
occasions when a desire to.....read more
Research seminar: Medieval work-in-progress
Architectural Patronage and the Infantazgo: The Prerogatives and Limitations of a Spanish Medieval Inheritance
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Professor Therese Martin (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor John Lowden
leonardo da vinci society annual lecture 2012
New Evidence of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper as a Humanist Contribution
Friday, 27 April 2012
18.00 – 19.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1496-98, Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, with superimposed white lines and numbers. Courtesy Matthew Landrus Speaker(s): Dr Matthew Landrus (Rhode Island School of Design and University of Oxford)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Prof Francis Ames-Lewis (Birkbeck)
Following an extensive period of research on the recently restored Last Supper, there is new evidence of Leonardo’s intentions for it as a Humanist contribution to the Sforza Court. Detailed assessments of the painting’s preparatory marks, measurements, designs, and.....read more
first annual postgraduate renaissance symposium
Beyond the Frame: Portraits and Personal Experience in Renaissance Europe,
c.1400 – 1650
Saturday 28 April 2012
9.30 - 17.45 (registration from 09.00)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Saint Catherine of Bologna with three donors, Master of the Baroncelli (c. 1470-1480) © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
Speakers and chairs: Irene Brook (independent scholar); Mary Camp (The Courtauld Institute of Art); Emmanuelle Capron (Christie's)......
Ticket/entry details: Admission free, all welcome. No booking is necessary
Organised by: Emily Gray and Harriette Peel (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
In Renaissance art historical scholarship, the category of the portrait has provided a key framework for thinking about and discussing representations of the individual, an emphasis that has been echoed in a range of recent exhibitions celebrating Renaissance ‘faces’.
The inaugural Renaissance postgraduate symposium invites new scholars to explore the limits of this .....read more
london roman art seminar 2012
The Casa del Menandro in Pompeii: Rhetoric and Roman Wall-painting
Monday, 30 April 2012
17.30, Royal Holloway London Annex (11 Bedford Square / 2 Gower Street with entrance on Montague Place), London WC1E 6DP, Seminar Room G3
Speaker(s): Katharina Lorenz (Nottingham 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
Moscow as a Space in Transition
Panel discussion
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
14.00 -16.00 , Research Forum South Room
Ivan Leonidov, Competition drawing for the People’s Commissariat for Heavy Industry, Red Square, Moscow, 1934. Fragment of the elevation. Ink, gouache, whitewash, and watercolor on paper. Speaker(s): Professor Jean-Louis Cohen (The Institute of Fine Arts, New York) and Maria Fedorchenko (Architectural Association, London)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission but due to limited space advance booking is required....
Organised by: Dr Maria Mileeva (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
This panel discussion will consider Moscow as a space in transition during the first half of the twentieth century (1905-1935) and the post-Soviet period (1989 and after). By focussing on the subject of urban planning and architecture of the city during the periods of social and political change, the panel will address the topics of the early skyscraper projects, patterns of urban Americanizm.....read more
Richard McDougall Workshop Spring 2012
Visions of Wales: Watercolours by English Artists, c. 1775-1850
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
16.00 - 18.00, IMAF Centre for the Study of Drawings, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Chepstow Castle (recto), circa 1793. Acquisition: Courtauld, Stephen, Sir (in memory of); gift; 1974 D.1974.STC.1. Copyright: © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
Speaker(s): Dr Rachel Sloan (Assistant Curator of Works on Paper, The Courtauld)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, places are free but due to limited space advance booking is required. Please contact researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk by Friday 27 April 2012
Organised by: Prof Caroline Arscott and Dr Rachel Sloan
One of the essential stops on an English watercolourist’s itinerary from the later eighteenth century, Wales provided a rich source of inspiration to generations of artists. First ‘discovered’ by antiquarians earlier in the century, the natural beauty and historical importance of its landscapes and architecture exerted a powerful attraction.....read more
american art and the mass media
Conference
Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 May 2012
Timings to be advised
Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA), 2 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris, France
Arthur Rothstein, Cowboy with amateur movie camera, Quarter Circle U roundup, Montana, 1939. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection [LC-USF33-003217-M1 DLC (b&w film nitrate neg.)].
Speaker(s): James Boaden, Jean-Loup Bourget, Annie Claustres, Christian Delage, Molly Donovan, Ursula Frohne, André Gunthert, Ségolène Le Men, Michael Lobel, Nenette Luarca-Shoaf, Richard Meyer, Stephanie Schwartz.....
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Fellows Dr Jason E. Hill (INHA) and Dr Elisa Schaar (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
This two-day international symposium considers the dynamic interplay of the fine arts and the technologies and structures of the mass media across the long narrative of American art history. Taking as an occasion the Warhol: Headlines travelling exhibition that premiered at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in the.....read more
terra foundation for american art visiting professor
Figure/Ground and the Embattled Self: Jackson Pollock's Late Work
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Jackson Pollock, Portrait and a Dream, 1953. Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Mr and Mrs Algur H Meadows and the Meadows Foundation, Inc. Courtesy of Dallas Museum of Art
Speaker(s): Angela Miller (Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Caroline Arscott
This lecture will consider Jackson Pollock’s late works, from 1951 forward, in relation to the return of figural elements and to his move away from the poured paintings that established his fame. Angela Miller will situate this late work within a cultural and aesthetic field animated.....read more
Research seminar: Medieval work-in-progress
True or Miraculous? Constantinopolitan Relics of the Holy Blood in Venice
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Dr Karin Krause (Kunsthistorisches Seminar der Universität Basel)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor John Lowden
terra foundation for american art visiting professor
Gerald Murphy, Americanisme, and the Metonymic Mode
Thursday, 10 May 2012
16.00 - 18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Angela Miller (Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University; and Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor, The Courtauld)
Ticket/entry details: Open to postgraduate students and history of art teaching staff
Organised by: Professor Caroline Arscott
This seminar will look at two distinct modalities within early 20th century American modernism, from the period from 1915 to 1935. For the purposes of comparison, we will begin with the “native” modernists around the figure of Alfred Stieglitz, committed to expressionist forms of organic abstraction, and then turn to the transatlantic figure of Gerald Murphy, whose self-referential and ironizing gestures point toward a deflation.....read more
caroline villers research fellow lecture
Diversity, Variability, and Shared Culture: Material and Technological Choices of Non-Traditional Buddhist Temple Painters of Colonial Ceylon (AD 1750-1900)
Thursday, 10 May 2012
18.00 - 19.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Polychrome and painted decoration of makara arch and guardian deities surrounding the doorway to the inner shrine room of Kataluva Purvarama Viharaya (late-19th century) (Photo: Vajira Jayathilleke)
Speaker(s): Professor B.D. Nandadeva (Caroline Villers Research Fellow, The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Aviva Burnstock
Cross-sections prepared from paint samples obtained from eighteen Buddhist temples located in the southern and western maritime provinces of the lowland area of Sri Lanka dated to the period between AD 1750 and 1900 when the region remained under the Dutch and the British colonial rule were examined. The objective of the study was to examine the hypothesis that the painters, who did not belong to the traditional painters’ caste....read more
Moving in Three Dimensions
Conference on Sculpture and Change
Friday 11 and Saturday 12 May 2012
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Donatello, David and St George, bronze and marble, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence; ex. Palazzo Medici, Palazzo della Signoria and Orsanmichele, Florence. Photo: Jim Harris
Speaker(s): Professor Bernard Frischer (Director of the Digital Sculpture Project, University of Virginia), Dr Henrik Holm (Curator of The Royal Cast Collection, Copenhagen), Dr Peter Dent (University of Bristol), Dr Ute Dercks (Kunsthistorisches Institute, Florence, Max-Planck-Institut)...
Ticket/entry details: £16 (£11 external students and free for Courtauld staff/students) BOOK NOW !....
Organised by: Dr Jim Harris (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
The concluding conference of the Research Forum project Three Approaches to Three Dimensions brings together scholars from Europe, the US and the UK to explore current issues in the study of sculpture. In three sessions, each divided into thematically related groups of papers, the conference will address questions .....read more
london roman art seminar 2012
Focussing on Roman Objects: Photographing the Art and Artefacts of Dura-Europos
Monday, 14 May 2012
17.30, Royal Holloway London Annex (11 Bedford Square / 2 Gower Street with entrance on Montague Place), London WC1E 6DP, Seminar Room G3
Speaker(s): Jennifer Baird (Birkbeck, 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
‘About Losing and Being Lost’: Encountering Ulrike Meinhof in Gerhard Richter’s October 18, 1977
Monday, 14 May 2012 - POSTPONED - alternative date will be advertised soon
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Henrietta (Hen) Stanford (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
terra foundation for american art postdoctoral fellow
America America: Sturtevant’s Repetitions, Pop, and the Rise of American Postwar Art
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
17.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Sturtevant, Duchamp Relache (detail), 1967. Black and white photograph. Copyright the artist, courtesy Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Speaker(s): Dr Elisa Schaar (Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Fellow)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Caroline Arscott
Sturtevant’s recent award of a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement marks the pinnacle of her belated critical recognition. This comes almost fifty years after Robert Rauschenberg won the Grand Prize at the Venice Biennale (the first American to do so) and ironically posed with Sturtevant as Adam and Eve, primal figures of a new American art scene several times removed.....read more
The Artistic Context of Leonardo's Anatomical Work
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Martin Clayton (Curator of Prints and Drawings, The Royal Library, Windsor)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Georgia Clarke
performing Art History II:
conveying research, communicating collaboration
Conference
Friday, 18 May 2012
12.00 - 18.00 (with registration from 11.30)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Screen-capture of YouTube video, created for Hold Your Horses by L’Ogre
Speaker(s): Cristiano Agostino (University of Edinburgh); Elena Crippa (Tate); Lázló Gárdonyi (ELTE, Budapest); Jim Harris (The Courtauld Institute of Art); Frank A. Jeste....
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free adminssion: Please note that online booking is now closed for this event but additional tickets will be available on the day.
Organised by: Jack Hartnell with Dr Katie Scott (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Building on a second year of workshops and seminars, the Performing Art History Group present a second conference exploring the clarity, diversity, and freedom that can come from presenting art historical research directly to an audience .....read more
london roman art seminar 2012
New Evidence of Polychromy in Hellenistic Sculpture at Delos and Elsewhere
Monday, 21 May 2012
17.30, Royal Holloway London Annex (11 Bedford Square / 2 Gower Street with entrance on Montague Place), London WC1E 6DP, Seminar Room G3
Speaker(s): Brigitte Bourgeois (Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France)
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
Searching for the Self: Arthur Hughes's Illustrations for George MacDonald's Phantastes
Monday, 21 May 2012
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Carey Gibbons (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
Research seminar: Contemporaneity in south asian art
Patterns of Dissent in Contemporary South Asian Art
Zarina Bhimji: The Politics of Poetry
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Zarina Bhimji, Yellow Patch 2011 (detail) © Courtesy the artist and DACS, London
Speaker(s): Zarina Bhimji (artist, London), Achim Borchardt-Hume (Chief Curator, Whitechapel Gallery, London), Manick Govinda (Head of Artists' Advisory Services and Artists' Producer at Artsadmin, UK)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Emilia Terracciano and Zehra Jumabhoy with Professor Deborah Swallow (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
The Panel Discussion follows close on the heels of British artist Zarina Bhimji’s first mid-career retrospective; presented at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, from 9 January to 9 March 2012, and curated by Achim Borchardt-Hume. Tracing 25 years of Bhimji’s work .....read more
Research seminar: Medieval work-in-progress
The Arca Santa Reliquary and Kingship at the End of the Eleventh Century
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Dr Rose Walker (Visiting Lecturer, The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor John Lowden
faculty seminar
The Delvaux Mystery
Thursday, 24 May 2012
16.00 - 18.00, Research Forum South Room
Paul Delvaux, The Greeting (1938)Speaker(s): Dr Gavin Parkinson (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open only to members of The Courtauld's teaching staff. RSVP by 21 May for catering purposes to Researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk
Organised by: Professor Caroline Arscott
Meant to signal in its parodic title both the causal, deductive conventions of academic art history and those of the detective story (which are dismantled by the novels I will be discussing) Gavin Parkinson's paper will look ....read more
probing the interior 1800-2012
Conference
Friday 25 May 2012
09.30 – 18.00 (with registration from 09.00)
This conference is to be held at The Courtauld Institute of Art in the morning and King's College London in the afternoon
Art/Craft © Beccy Ridsdel
speaker(s): Parveen Adams (Fellow of the London Consortium); Ellery Foutch (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Ignacio Gonzalez Galan (Princeton .....
Ticket/entry details: £16 (£11 students, Courtauld and King's College London staff and....) BOOK ONLINE now...
Organised by: Lucetta Johnson (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Keren Hammerschlag (King’s College London)
Bodily, psychic and spatial interiors can be mapped, traversed and violated in multiple ways. This one-day conference will interrogate and re-evaluate the contested terrain of the interior.....read more
arp: A Critical Survey
Tuesday 29 May 2012
18.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): include Dr Arie Hartog (Director of the Gerhard-Marcks Haus, Bremen), Prof. Eric Robertson (Royal Holloway, University of London), Prof. Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld); Chair: Prof. Chris Green (The Courtauld )
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission, but due to limited space advance booking required. Book Online.....
Organised by: The Courtauld Institute of Art and the Stiftung Hans Arp & Sophie Taueber-Arp e.V.
Arp: A Critical Survey, published by Hatje Cantz on 15 May 2012, focuses on the sculpture of German-French sculptor and poet Hans Arp (1886–1966), one of the most important artists of the twentieth century.....read more
Research seminar: history of photography
Approaches to the Urban Landscape
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Mersin, Fault Lines/Turkey/East/
West. George Georgiou
Speaker(s): George Georgiou (Photographer)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Julian Stallabrass and Pei-Kuei Tsai
Photographer George Georgiou was born in London to Greek-Cypriot parents and graduated in photography from the Polytechnic of Central London. At this seminar, Georgiou will speak about his two series of street photographs, titled Fault Lines/Turkey/East/West and Invisible: London, the former taken across Turkey, the latter in
.....read more
Trans-historical Displays: A Curatorial Challenge?
Friday, 8 June 2012
17.30 - 19.00 (note time), Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): to be advised
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: The Courtauld Institute of Art’s MA Programme Curating the Art Museum in collaboration with the Research Forum
The turn of the new millennium saw an explosion of trans-historical exhibitions at several major art museums, including New Starts at MOMA in New York in 2000, and The Big Bang at the Pompidou in 2007. Institutions such as Tate Modern, and more recently Tate Britain, have reassessed their collection and reconfigured their displays to explore new.....read more
The Courtauld Collections: conservation and art historical analysis: works from the the Courtauld Gallery
Monday, 11 June 2012
12.30 - 14.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Research Forum Research Associates: Stephanie Lenk, Cleo Nisse, Alysia Sawicka, Francesca Whitlum-Cooper
Ticket/entry details: Open to The Courtauld Institute of Art's academic staff and postgraduate students. RSVP by 12noon, Wednesday 6 June 2012 to.....
Organised by: Professor Aviva Burnstock and Dr Caroline Campbell
This is the second of two presentations by this year's Research Associates appointed to the Courtauld Collections project. Four Research Associates, two studying art history, and two from the Department of Conservation and Technology, will present the results of their research on two paintings from The Courtauld Gallery which are undergoing.....read more
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
The N group and the Operaisti: Art and Class Struggle in the Italian Economic Boom
Monday, 11 June 2012
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Jacopo Galimberti (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
Research seminar: renaissance
title tbc
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Dr Sue Jones (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Georgia Clarke
european painted cloths c14th - c21st: Pageantry, ceremony, theatre and domestic interior
Conference
10.00 - 17.45, Friday 15 June (with registration from 09.30)
10.25 - 17.30, Saturday 16 June (with registration from 10.00)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Keynote speakers inlcude: Jo Kirby Atkinson (Scientific Department, National Gallery, London); Roland Krischel (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne, Germany); Nicholas Mander (Owlpen Manor, UK); Hilary Vernon Smith (Royal National Theatre, UK)
Ticket/entry details: £65 (£25 students and concessions) / Free for Courtauld staff/students but space is limited so online booking is required. BOOK online now! ...
This two day conference will explore the use of painted cloths in religious ceremony, pageantry, domestic interiors and scenic art. It will focus on their change of context and significance from the fourteenth to the twenty-first century exploring their different function, materials, and method of creation
.....read more
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Hans Feibusch: Patronage and Civic Identity in Frankfurt and London
Monday, 18 June 2012
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Joanna Cheetham (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
revival: Utopia, Identity, Memory
Call for Project Participants Deadline
16 April 2012
Thomas Deane and Benjamin Woodward, Capital (detail), Oxford University Museum of Natural History, c.1860 (Conway Library, The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Workshop to take place Wednesday 20 June 2012 and conference 23-24 November 2012
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Revivalism in art and architecture is a fundamental though often overlooked aspect of modernity. From the nineteenth century to the present, styles, ideologies, techniques and approaches have been revived and re-framed. Revival: Utopia, Identity, Memory seeks to investigate the diverse dimensions of revivalism, exploring its meanings and impacts across cultures, periods and media. The extent to which revivalism has been harnessed to promote utopian visions, assert aspects of personal or corporate identity, and grant fresh purchase on memorialization.....read more
korean contemporary art international conference:
Between tradition, Modernity and globalisation
Conference
Friday 29 June to Sunday 1 July 2012
The Courtauld Institute of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum
Yeondoo Jung, Sixpoints, 2010. Courtesy of the artist.
Speaker(s): Youngbaik Chun (Hongik University, Seoul), Yeondoo Jung (Artist, Seoul), Joan Kee (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Chan-dong Kim (Arts Council Korea), Inbeom Lee (Sangmyung University), Jiyoon Lee (Director, SUUM Academy and Project), Meekyoung Shin (Artist.....
Ticket/entry details: £26 (£16 students, Courtauld staff and concessions) - BOOK ONLINE now...
Organised by: Jiyoon Lee and Professor Julian Stallabrass
Korean contemporary art has gained a strong presence on the contemporary art scene, with a new generation of artists making names globally. At the same time, Korea maintains a strong domestic contemporary art scene.....read more
Current Unresolved Issues Regarding Globalism in Art History
Saturday, 7 July 2012
16.00 - 17.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Speaker(s): James Elkins (E.C. Chadbourne Chair of art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission but due to limited space advance booking is required. Book online...
Organised by: Julian Stallabrass and Liz Kim (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
In the last decade the question of art history’s global reach
– or lack of it – has appeared as an inescapable topic for art history. As the discipline of art history wakens to the possibility of worldwide art historical writing, it also becomes more seriously engaged with ......read more
contested views: visual culture and the revolutionary and napoleonic wars
Conference
Thursday 19 and Friday 20 July 2012
10.00 - 17.45, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain,
The Third of May 1808, 1814. Goya, Oil on canvas. © Museo Nacional del Prado Madrid - (Spain)
Plenary Speakers: Mary Favret, Gillian Russell, Susan Siegfried, Paul White.
Ticket/entry details: to be advised.
Organised by: Satish Padiyar (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Phil Shaw (University of Leicester), and Philippa Simpson (Royal Museums Greenwich) for the Tate Research Centre: British Romantic Art.
In July 2012, in advance of commemoration of the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, Tate Britain is to host a two-day conference exploring the impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on world-wide visual culture, from the outbreak of the
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Future conferences
revival: Utopia, Identity, Memory
Call for Project Participants Deadline
16 April 2012
Thomas Deane and Benjamin Woodward, Capital (detail), Oxford University Museum of Natural History, c.1860 (Conway Library, The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Workshop to take place Wednesday 20 June 2012 and conference 23-24 November 2012
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Revivalism in art and architecture is a fundamental though often overlooked aspect of modernity. From the nineteenth century to the present, styles, ideologies, techniques and approaches have been revived and re-framed. Revival: Utopia, Identity, Memory seeks to investigate the diverse dimensions of revivalism, exploring its meanings and impacts across cultures, periods and media. The extent to which revivalism has been harnessed to promote utopian visions, assert aspects of personal or corporate identity, and grant fresh purchase on memorialization.....read more
Fourth Early Modern Symposium
Art and Its Afterlives
Call for Papers
1 July 2012
Conference to take place Saturday 17 November 2012
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Art and Its Afterlives aims to address the ways in which the work of art continues to resonate after its creation. While much art history takes as its focus the initial facture of the work of art, this one-day symposium explores what happens to early modern art after the moment of its making. How did early modern works continue to be created in their display .....read more
more to follow.....
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