Research Forum Spring Term 2010
THE material life of things symposium
Hands On: Seven Perspectives on the Material Transformation of Art
Friday, 5 November 2010
15.00 - 19.00, Research Forum South Room
Ewer painted in Kraak style, with silver gilt mount China, Jingdezhen kilns, Wanli reign period (1573-1619); mounts: England: ca. 1610-20. Given by Dr Louis C.G. Clarke, V&A museum number: M.220–1916
Speaker(s): Moya Carey (V&A); Francesca Dell'Acqua (Università degli Studi di Salerno); Rebecca Farbstein (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge); Sally Korman (independent); Luisa Mengoni (V&A); Nat Silver (UCL/ The Frick Collection); Maria Elena Versari (Duquesne University, Pittsburgh)
Ticket/entry details: All welcome but numbers are limited. Advance booking by 12 noon on Tuesday 2 November is essential. Please contact: ResearchForumEvents@courtauld.ac.uk
Organised by: Dr Francesco Lucchini
Drawing together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, this workshop will offer a range of views and interpretations on the material transformation of art, from Paleolithic to Modernism, via seventeen-century China and nineteenth–century Iran. It considers the ways in which works of art as material objects are manipulated, re-made and unmade by different individuals, at different times, manifesting different social and cultural practices, shaping markets and demand, and influencing historical narratives.
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