Research Forum aRCHIVE
Conference Programme
autumn term ARCHIVE 2009
SIGHt AND SOUND IN THE STREET
Saturday 17 October 2009
10.30 - 16.45 (with registration from 10.00)
Research Forum South Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Speaker(s): Niall Atkinson (Texas Christian University), Angus Carlyle (CRISAP - University of the Arts London), Ornette Clennon (Oxford Brookes University), Alexander Cowan (Northumbria University), Flora Dennis (University of Sussex), Liz Horodowitz (New Mexico State University), Terhi Rantanen (London School of Economics), David Rosenthal (Monash University), Joe Young (Artist, Artofnoises)
Ticket/entry details: All welcome but it is necessary to register in advance as numbers are limited. For further information and to register please contact Georgia Clarke (georgia.clarke@courtauld.ac.uk)
Organised by: Georgia Clarke (The Courtauld) and Fabrizio Nevola (University of Bath)
Further information: This study day is part of the Street Life and Street Culture: Between Early Modern Europe and the Present network, funded by the AHRC as part of the Beyond Text project. This study day will consider themes to do with the senses of sight and sound as they impinge upon and inform the public space of the street.
The Street Life and Street Culture network has set out to build an international team of scholars with shared research interests in the interdisciplinary study of urban culture; in particular the relationship between the built environment and the social fabric of Early Modern cities. By entering into a dynamic discourse with specialists from non-historical disciplines, we are pursuing the potential for ‘experiential’ studies of street life, in a two-way discussion linking the historic past to the present.
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MODERNITY's CULTURAL POLITICS: CHINA IN CONTEXT
13.00 - 18.00, Friday 23 October 2009 (with registration from 12.30)
10.00 - 18.00, Saturday 24 October 2009 (with registration from 09.30)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Xiao Lu, Dialogue, 1989. Installation and performance. Image courtesy of the artist
Speaker(s): include Tani E. Barlow (Rice University), Una Chung (Sarah Lawrence College), Harriet Evans (University of Westminster), Paul Gladston (University of Nottingham at Ningbo, China), Joan Kee (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Peter Osborne (Middlesex University), Adele Tan (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Tsering Topgyal (London School of Economics), Chaohua Wang (Academica Sinica, Taiwan), Winnie Wong (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Soyoung Yoon (Purchase College, Stanford University) ), Xudong Zhang (New York University), Yingjin Zhang (University of San Diego)
Ticket/entry details: £25 (£15 concessions and/or students; free for Courtauld students, but pre-booking is required). 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 ‘Modernity’s Cultural Politics: China conference'. Or call 020 7848 2785/2909 to make a credit card booking. Or, for further information, send an email to ResearchForumEvents@courtauld.ac.uk
Organised by: Dr Julian Stallabrass and Jeannine Tang, with additional moderation from Adele Tan (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Soyoung Yoon (Purchase College/ Stanford University)
Further information: Modernity's Cultural Politics: China in Context is a two-day conference that asks: what are the formations and functions of cultural production, in representing and intervening ethico-politically into the ongoing projects of modernity, particularly when modernities intersect with processes of globalization? The conference will focus on incomplete projects of Chinese modernities, through panels on critical theory, contemporary art, film and documentary, media and the public sphere, with invited speakers from the Asia, the US and the UK. Topics include, and are not limited to: the intellectual legacy of post-Tiananmen modern critical theory; how forms of art are/have been affected by globalization, feminism and the cultural revolution; the ways in which film – commercial film, auteur film, and documentary – imagine modern politics and publics, and reflect/resist the logic of capital; and the conditions of modern media in an age of intellectual property and Web 2.0, as significant forces in how culture intervenes into the tumultuous processes of modernity, and the modern nation’s struggle for self-definition.
Modernity's Cultural Politics: China in Context is part of LCACE's (London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange) Inside Out Festival, 19-25 October 2009, and has been made possible through the generous support of LCACE and the British Academy.
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Photo Archives and the photographic memory of art history - Part ii
Thursday 29 - Saturday 31 October 2009
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut,
Via G. Giusti 38, 50121 Florence, Italy
Speaker(s): Valentina Branchini (Art Institute of Chicago), Matthias Bruhn (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Francesco Caglioti (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), Costanza Caraffa (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - MPI), Elizabeth Edwards (LCC - University of Arts London), Giulio Manieri Elia (Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venezia), Anthony Hamber (London), Melissa Beck Lemke (National Gallery Washington), Ewa Manikowska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), Angela Matyssek (Philipps-Universität Marburg), Dominique Morelon (INHA, Paris), Giovanni Pagliarulo (Villa I Tatti, Firenze), Silvia Paoli (Civico Archivio Fotografico, Milano), Dorothea Peters (Berlin), Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds), Inge Reist (Frick Art Reference Library, New York), Michael Remmy (Forschungsarchiv für Antike Plastik; Universität zu Köln), Alessandra Sarchi (Fondazione Zeri, Bologna), Tiziana Serena (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Pepper Stetler (University of Vermont), Edith Struchholz-Pommeranz (Universität Mainz - Jacob Burckhardt Werke), Kelley Wilder (De Montfort University, Leicester)
Ticket/entry details: The conference is open to the public and free of charge
Organised by: Costanza Caraffa (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – MPI; email: Caraffa@khi.fi.it) and Patricia Rubin (Institute of Fine Arts, New York; email: patricia.rubin@nyu.edu)
Further information: This conference will investigate the role of photographic archives in art historical studies, with an emphasis on image collections that were formed "scientifically" - that is with the specific purpose of aiding research.
The discipline of art history and image reproduction technologies have developed concurrently and their own histories are closely interlinked. After a first part in London (June 16-17, 2009 at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London), which focused on photography's role in shaping art history, the second part of the conference will be held in Florence. Here the history, nature, and influence of specific archives will be discussed.
An important focus will be on the historical process of the institutionalization of photo archives: who built the archive and for what purpose? How is it organized and made accessible? How is it preserved? This will lead to a debate on the current functions and finally on the future of photo archives. Stronger attention will be placed on the materiality of the photographic object and of the archive itself as research environment not only for art history, but also for other disciplines like the history of science, the history of photography, anthropology and visual studies.
For further information please visit the webiste of theKunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz Max-Planck-Institut http://www.khi.fi.it/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung190/index.html or contact: Maja Häderli (email: Haederli@khi.fi.it, Tel.: +39 055 24911-22)
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imaging dogma, picturing belief
Late-Medieval Mural Painting in Parish Churches across Europe
12.00 - 18.15, Friday 6 November 2009 (with registration from 11.30)
10.00 - 18.15, Saturday 7 November 2009 (with registration from 09.30)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
San Vittore del Lazio, San Nicola, aisle (Photo: F. Botana)
Speaker(s): include Joanne Anderson (University of Warwick), Milena Bartlová (Masaryk University, Brno), Axel Bolvig (University of Copenhagen), Federico Botana (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Dušan Buran (National Gallery, Bratislava), Tiziana Franco (University of Verona), Ilona Hans-Collas (Groupe des Recherches sur la Peinture Murale, Paris), Melena Hope (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Zsombor Jékely (Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest), Lisa Mahoney (Northwestern University, Chicago), Santiago Manzarbeitia Valle (Universidad Complutense, Madrid), Richard Marks (University of Cambridge), Tom Nickson (University of York), Luis Urbano Alfonso (University of Lisbon), Christian Nikolaus Opitz (University of Vienna), David Park (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Dominique Rigaux (University of Grenoble 2), Elena Taddia (independent scholar), Géraldine Victoir (Courtauld Institute), Lucy Wrapson (University of Cambridge).
Ticket/entry details: £25 (£15 concessions) Please send a cheque made payable to ‘Courtauld Institute of Art’ to: Research Forum Events Co-ordinator, Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, clearly stating that you wish to book for the conference ‘Imaging Dogma, Picturing Belief.’ For credit card bookings call 020 7848 2785/2909. For further information, send an e-mail to ResearchForumEvents@courtauld.ac.uk.
Organised by: Federico Botana (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Further information: The walls of parish churches and chapels have much to tell us about life in the Middle Ages. Images of saints, votive frescoes, and graffiti are all witnesses of personal and collective histories; they contain gripping evidence of famines, epidemics, puerperal and child mortality, and often reflect a deep anxiety about the afterlife. Mural programmes consisting of didactic subjects and biblical scenes can verify the strategies used by the clergy and other elites to instruct lay populations believed to be prone to heresy and to influence their views on issues such as wars and local feuds. At this conference, research on late-medieval mural painting in parish churches across Europe will be presented by scholars from thirteen different European countries and the United States.
For further information, please contact: federico.botana@courtauld.ac.uk
CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF JENNIFER FLETCHER
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
11.30 - 18.30 (registration not required)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Vittore Carpaccio (1460/6 -1525/6), The Virgin reading to Christ, around 1490. Red chalk, pen and ink on paper, 12.8 x 9.4 cm. © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London (D.1978.PG.82, verso)
Speaker(s): include Amanda Beddington (independent), Zahira Veliz Bomford (The Courtauld), Caroline Campbell (The Courtauld Gallery), Lorne Campbell (The National Gallery), David Chambers (The Warburg Institute), Peter Cherry (Trinity College, Dublin), Susan Connell (Independent), Jill Dunkerton (The National Gallery), Gabriele Finaldi (Museo del Prado), John Gash (Aberdeen University), Maurice Howard (University of Sussex), Susan Jenkins (English Heritage), Laura and Giulio Lepschy (University College, London), Neil Macgregor (The British Museum), Allegra Pesenti (The Hammer Museum), Catherine Reynolds (Christies), Xavier Salomon (Dulwich Picture Gallery) and Desmond Shawe-Taylor (The Royal Collection)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Caroline Campbell (The Courtauld Gallery), Dr Xavier Salomon (Dulwich Picture Gallery) and Dr Susan Ghosh (independent)
Further information: This one-day conference will celebrate Jennifer Fletcher’s outstanding contribution to art history as an imaginative and original scholar and inspirational teacher.
Jennifer came to The Courtauld as a student in 1957 and was supervised by Ernst Gombrich at the Warburg Institute. She is recognised today as one of the leading experts in Venetian Renaissance painting. However, after teaching at the University of Reading from 1960-66, she was first appointed as the Baroque specialist at The Courtauld. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford in 1990-91 and The Getty Museum Scholar in Los Angeles in 2000. She retired from The Courtauld in 2002, and is now an Honorary Fellow.
Very many of her students have gone on to become highly distinguished art historians in an extremely broad field. The speakers at the conference reflect Jennifer’s wide range of interests, including Rubens, the Baroque and Spain, as well as Renaissance Venice. Jennifer’s flair as a teacher lay in spotting talent and allowing her students to do what they were good at, having the faith and generosity to let them run with what they found inspirational. Jennifer’s sharp intellect, indomitable spirit, forthright manner and keen sense of justice have won her many admirers and friends over her long and varied career. The conference will pay tribute to the many highlights of her distinguished life as a scholar.
Full programme details will be available in due course.
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WRITING ART HISTORY: READING AND WRITING
14.30 - 18.00,
Friday 13 November 2009 (with registration from 14.00)
10.00 - 18.00, Saturday 14 November 2009 (with registration from 09.30)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Peter Foldes, Portrait of Professor Anthony Blunt reading, 1947. Oil on canvas 61cm x 50.8cm. © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
Speaker(s): Nicholas Chare (University of Reading), Charlotte de Mille (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Linda Goddard (University of St. Andrews), Olivia Horsfall-Turner (University College London), Philippa Kaina (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Jeremy Melius (University of California at Berkeley), Maria Mileeva (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Charles F B Miller (University of Manchester), Gavin Parkinson (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Barbara Penner (Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL) Stephanie Porras (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, places are free but must be booked in advance. Please make a booking by emailing ResearchForumEvents@courtauld.ac.uk by midday Wednesday 11 November 2009
Organised by: Lucy Bradnock and Catherine Grant
Further information: This conference marks the culmination of the activities of the Writing Art History Seminar Group, which has been meeting regularly for the past two years to discuss and develop projects that engage with the issues surrounding the act of writing, in relation to the artist, critic and historian. The various projects of its members have considered different modes and methods of writing, the relation between fiction and art history, the changing role of the art historian and critic, and the functions of names and anonymity, the boundaries and borders that shape the discipline.
The conference presents the work of a number of the group’s members, both emerging and established scholars, alongside the voices of some of those that have shaped the discipline through their own varied approaches and methodological explorations. It brings together some of the most significant voices in art history today, asking vital questions about the relationship of art, art writing and writing art history.
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EVERYDAY OBJECTS: ART AND EXPERIENCE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Inaugural Early Modern Symposium
Saturday, 21 November 2009
10.00 - 17.15 (with registration from 09.30)
Research Forum South Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Diego Velázquez, Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, c. 1618. Photo: © National Gallery, London
Speaker(s): Samuel Bibby (University College London), Ariane Fennetaux (Université Paris-Diderot), Olivia Fryman ( Kingston University and Historic Royal Palaces ), Melinda Rabb (Brown University), Paula Radisich (Whittier College), Katie Scott (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Beth Fowkes Tobin (Arizona State University), Joanna Woodall (The Courtauld Institute of Art).
Ticket/entry details: £15 (£10 Students) Please send a cheque made payable to ‘Courtauld Institute of Art’ to: Research Forum Events Co-ordinator, Research Forum, The Courtauld Institute of Art , Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, clearly stating that you wish to book for the ‘Everyday Objects Conference’. For credit card bookings call 020 7848 2785/2909. For further information, send an email to ResearchForumEvents@courtauld.ac.uk
Organised by: Edward Payne and Hannah Williams
Further information: Through a focus on the everyday object, this one-day symposium explores both the experience of visual culture in everyday life and the phenomenon of the everyday in visual culture. Drawing on theories of the everyday from such fields as anthropology, phenomenology and sociology, papers will examine the seemingly banal things that formed the culture of daily life, asking: what constitutes an everyday object? How were everyday objects experienced, represented or collected? And how does their study enhance our understanding of the cultural history of early modernity?
Papers by established and emerging scholars will explore the theme of the everyday object in a variety of media, including sculpture, painting, dress, furniture and the graphic arts. Presentations will investigate ephemeral objects, quotidian spaces and habitual activities – from the social rituals of marriage, food consumption and waste disposal, to overlooked ‘things’ like taxidermy, miniature furniture and clothing accessories.
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SURREALISM, POST-WAR THEORY, AND THE AVANT-GARDE
Friday 27 – Saturday 28 November 2009
17.15 - 19.00, 27 November
10.00 - 18.30, 28 November (with registration from 9.30)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Speaker(s): Lucy Bradnock (Getty Research Institute), David Cunningham (University of Westminster), Jonathan Eburne (Pennsylvania State University), Jill Fenton (Queen Mary, University of London), Patrick ffrench (Kings College, University of London), Steven Harris (University of Alberta, Edmonton), Alyce Mahon (Trinity College, Cambridge), Gavin Parkinson (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Michael Richardson (independent scholar) and Allan Stoekl (Pennsylvania State University)
Ticket/entry details: £10. 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 ‘Surrealism, Post-War Theory and the Avant-Garde conference’. Or call 020 7848 2785/2909 to make a credit card booking. Or, for further information, send an email to ResearchForumEvents@courtauld.ac.uk
Organised by: Gavin Parkinson (The Courtauld Institute of Art) in association with Dr David Cunningham (University of Westminster)
Further information: This conference co-organised with the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture at the University of Westminster engages with a range of different legacies of Surrealism in the postwar era, both in philosophical and theoretical work and in the activities of various avant-garde movements, including existentialism, performance, Pop Art, COBRA, the Nouveau Roman, Tel Quel, the Situationist International, post-structuralism, and postmodernism. The contributors to the event will explore both the often occluded role of Surrealism within the formation of 1960s-1970s French theory and its place within an emergent post-war discourse of the avant-garde.
'GOTHIC' AND ITS LEGACIES
Thursday 10 December 2009
11.00 - 18.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Nineteenth-century painting in Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris. Photo: L Cleaver.
Speaker(s): Laura Cleaver (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Camelia Darie (University of Manchester), Charlotte de Mille (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Niamh Nic Ghabhann (Trinity College, Dublin), Jeong-yon Ha (University of Edinburgh), Owen Hopkins (The Courtauld Institute of Art), ‘Ayla Lepine (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Anne Moignet-Gaultier (Université Paris 10), Peter Nelson Lindfield (University of St Andrews), Niccola Shearman (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Gilda Williams (Open University), Matthew Woodworth (Duke University)
Ticket/entry details: All welcome but numbers are limited. Advance booking by 7 December 2009 is essential. To register and for further information contact Laura Cleaver at Laura.cleaver@courtauld.ac.uk.
Organised by: Laura Cleaver and Ayla Lepine
Further information: Giorgio Vasari, writing in the sixteenth century, famously associated what he saw as a decline in the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture with the invasion of Rome by ‘Goths and other barbarians’. Just what constitutes ‘Gothic’ art, however, remains contentious. In the nineteenth century John Ruskin was amongst those who explored the meaning of the term, seeking to define the ‘Gothicness’ of medieval works. Unlike Vasari, however, Ruskin celebrated this quality and advocated the use of this ‘Gothic’ style by contemporary artists and architects.
In the centuries after the Middle Ages are usually considered to have ended, works of art and architecture from the period continued to be used as inspiration for works in a wide range of media. At the same time, surviving material was sometimes reworked under the guises of conservation or improvement. This workshop will explore such responses to the art of the Middle Ages in works of art and architecture produced after 1550.
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Spring and summer terms 2010
New Approaches to British Art, 1939-1969
Friday 4 June and Saturday 5 June 2010
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Roger Hilton, January 1957, 1957. London, Tate Britain (Photo: © Tate, London 2009)
Keynote Speakers: Alex Potts (Michigan), Chris Stephens (Tate Britain), Anne Wagner (Berkeley)
Ticket/entry details: to be advised here in the Spring Term 2010
Organised by: Lisa Tickner and David Peters Corbett
Further information: 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 buoyancy of the market, the large audiences for modern art internationally, and the significance of monographic exhibitions devoted to a few select names (Nicholson, Caro, Bacon, Freud), there is still a dearth of published work by younger scholars in this period and little thematic and analytic study in comparison to scholarship on British art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This conference will stimulate further study of the art of these years and provide a forum in which new work and fresh approaches can be discussed and developed. It has attracted speakers from Europe, Australia and the US and a range of proposals examining transatlantic relations; anthropology and the Independent Group; decolonization and pop; landscape in the nuclear age; art, architecture and photography; artists and critics such as Herbert Read and Adrian Stokes; and the institutional field including exhibitions and the export drive. We look forward to a stimulating two days in June.
This conference is being jointly organised by The Courtauld Institute of Art and the University of York.
For further information, please contact lisa.tickner@courtauld.ac.uk
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