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From the symposium programme:

Freemasonry and the Visual Arts
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, 26 May 2017

Co-chaired by Reva Wolf and Alisa Luxenberg

The Freemasonry and the Visual Arts symposium is a program of the second World Conference on Fraternalism, Freemasonry, and History.

It brings together a series of original case studies to reveal the wide variety, international scope, social complexity, and fundamental historical significance of the intersections of Masonry and the arts from the eighteenth century forward.

Registration is free through this link.

14:00  Part 1: Freemasonry and the Exploration of Architecture
• David Martín López (University of Granada), Freemasonry in Eighteenth-Century Portugal and the Architectural Projects of the Marquis de Pombal
• Alisa Luxenberg (University of Georgia, Athens), Building Codes: New Light on f … baron Taylor and Les Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l’ancienne France
• Talinn Grigor (University of California, Davis), Reveil de l’Iran: Freemasonry and Artistic Revivalism from Parsi Bombay to Qajar Tehran

15:15  Coffee break

15:30  Part 2: Art, Freemasonry, and Social and Political Upheaval
• Cordula Bischoff (independent scholar), Meissen Porcelain and the Order of the Pug
• Reva Wolf (State University of New York at New Paltz), Goya’s Art and Freemasonry in Spain
• Katherine Marie Smith (New York University), Masonic Imagery in Haitian Vodou

16:45  Part 3: Transformations in the Art of Freemasonry in the United States
• Nan Wolverton (American Antiquarian Society), ‘Within the Compass of Good Citizens’: The Visual Arts of Freemasonry as Practiced by Paul Revere
• William D. Moore (Boston University), ‘To Consummate the Plan’: Solomon’s Temple in Masonic Art, Architecture, and Popular Culture, 1865–1930
• Cheryl Finley (Cornell University) and Deborah Willis (New York University), ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’: Imaging Black Freemasons from Emancipation to the 1960s

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From H-ArtHist, with more information available at the conference website:

Heritage and Revolution: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, 6 May 2017

From the French Revolution in the eighteenth century, to the communist revolutions in twentieth-century Russia and China, to the Arab Spring in the twenty-first century, heritage has been in the cross-hairs of aspirations to change and utopian constructions of possible futures. This research seminar will explore the unique and complex relationship between cultural heritage and revolutions, two concepts with seemingly opposed temporal connotations.

9:00  Introduction
Chair: Mathilde LeLoup
Dominique Poulot – The French Revolution and the Democratization of Heritage: Or the Parallel Inventions of Vandalism and Heritage

9:30  Session 1: Revolutionary Vanguards in Retrospect
Chair: Tom Crowley
• Astrid Swenson – Out with the Old? The Role of Revolution in the Rise of Heritage
• Julie Deschepper – Between Past and Future: The ‘Heritage Revolution’ in Russia
• Heonik Kwon – Shrine for Displaced Spirits: A Heritage of the Vietnamese Revolution
• Tom Stammers – The Homeless Heritage of the French Revolution

11:00  Coffee break

11:20  Session 2: Building and Destroying Socialist Pasts
Chair: Margaret Comer
• Francesco Iacono – Counter-Revolution or Why It Is Impossible to Have a Heritage of Communism and What Can We Do about It
• Myroslava Hartmond – Where The Bodies Are Buried: A Comparative Study of Lenin Disposal in Post-Communist States
• Laura Demeter – Regime Change and Cultural Heritage Protection, a Matter of State Security

12:30  Artist Talk
• Martha McGuinn – authentic.obj

1:00  Lunch

2:00  Session 3: Materiality and Immateriality of Revolution
Chair: Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
• Lila Janik – Materiality of Praxis and Substance: A Tangible Witnesses to the Russian Revolution and the Subsequent Oppression
• John Carman – Anarchist Ambiguity: The Past and Creating a Free Society
• Michael Falser – From Maoist Revolution to the Mimicking of UNESCO’s Cold War Diplomacy: The Khmer Rouge and the (Un)Making of Angkor/Cambodia as Cultural Heritage, 1975–90

3:00  Session 4: Exhibition Revolution
Chair: Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp
• Jennifer E. Altehenger – Industrial Chinoiserie: China’s Pavilion at the Leipzig Trade Fairs in the 1950s
• Flaminia Bartolini – Entertaining Italy with Propaganda: The Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution in Rome

4:15  Session 5: The Arab Spring: Reconciling Competing Visions
Chair: Dacia Viejo Rose
• Shadia Mahmoud – Museums and Cultural Heritage in Post-Revolution Egypt: Transformation and Transmission
• Dena Qaddumi – Confronting the Past for the sake of the Future: Cultural Heritage in Tunis

5:00  Discussion

5:30  Wine reception

7:00 Dinner

From H-ArtHist (with an updated schedule available here). . .

Rococo in Scandinavia
Palais Thott, Copenhagen, 30 May 2017

Registration due by 29 May 2017

Organized by Corinne Thépaut-Cabasset

Rococo in Scandinavia will explore the many ways in which the history of style affected the arts and the culture of Scandinavia over the course of the long eighteenth century by exploring the Rococo stream.

The past years in Copenhagen have shown an interest for rococo culture: the fashion exhibition Rokoko Mania was on view at the Designmuseum Denmark in 2012; Danish art historian Charlotte Christensen published the first monograph on Carl Gustaf Pilo, the most eminent eighteenth-century painter in Scandinavia, in 2016; and the Statens Museum for Kunst presented the exhibition William Hogarth: A Harlot’s Progress and Other Stories, also in 2016. These events demonstrate the potential for developing the topic in Denmark.

The study of the dissemination of Rococo in Scandinavia has never been addressed in a public forum. This is why and how the idea of having a conference in Copenhagen emerged and was developed and ought to happen in Scandinavia under the auspices of the French Embassy in Denmark. This conference will convene for the first time eighteenth-century experts from Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Sweden, and America in a public forum about the Rococo in Scandinavia.

Participation is free, based on the number of available places, but registration is compulsory; please email Corinne Thépaut-Cabasset, ctc16@hum.ku.dk.

T U E S D A Y ,  3 0  M A Y  2 0 1 7

13:30  Welcome by H. E. François Zimeray (French Ambassador in Denmark)

13:40  Charlotte Christensen (Former Curator at the Designmuseum, Denmark), Fatal Fires: How Copenhagen Lost Its Rococo

14:00  Jørgen Hein (Senior Curator at Rosenborg Palace, Denmark), Saved from the Fire and Sent to the Garden: Rococo from the First Christiansborg at Rosenborg

14:20  Merit Laine (Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Uppsala University, Sweden), Coexistence or Transition? Rococo and Classicism in Queen Louisa Ulrika’s Museum at Drottningholm

14:40  Pascal Bertrand (Professor of the History of Art, University of Bordeaux-Montaigne, France), The Color of the Rococo: French Tapestries after Oudry and Boucher in Scandinavia

15:00  Corinne Thepaut-Cabasset (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow, SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen), Fashioning the Rococo: Looking for a Rococo Wardrobe

15:20  Viveka Hansen (Independent Textile Historian, The IK Foundation, UK), Rococo and East India Influences at a Swedish Manor House in 1758

15:40  Michael Yonan (Associate Professor of Art History, University of Missouri, USA), Print Culture and the Dissemination of French Rococo Design in Eighteenth-Century Europe

16:00  Barbara Lasic (Professor of Art History, University of Buckingham, UK), ‘Une exquise expression artistique’: Spectacularising the Rococo at the 1935 Exhibition or Eighteenth-Century French Art in Copenhagen

16:20  Discussion

16:45  Piano Concert

17:00  Tour of the Palais Thott

W E D N E S D A Y ,  3 1  M A Y  2 0 1 7

The conference will be followed by a tour on Wednesday of additional rococo spaces in Copenhagen (museums and palaces), concluding with a reception at Christian’s VIII palace in Amalienborg, at 4:00pm.

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Note (added 17 May 2017) — The original posting included Krista Vajanto (Researcher, Archaeologist, Aalto University, Finland) on the schedule, presenting a paper entiled, “Shipwrecks Findings: a Rococo Petticoat and Luxury Textiles from Sankt Mikael Shipwreck (1747).” Vivika Hansen’s paper has been added in its place.

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From H-ArtHist:

Under the Greek Sky: Imitation and Geographies of Art after Winckelmann
King’s College London, The Warburg Institute, The British Museum, London, 15–16 June 2017

2017 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of the German classicist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, commonly regarded as the founding father of both archaeology and art history. Winckelmann’s writings heralded a revolution in approaches to the history of ancient art and culture, as well as contributing to the spread of neoclassical taste throughout Enlightenment Europe. This conference will re-evaluate Winckelmann’s legacy and his influence on art theory since the eighteenth century. The concept of imitation, central to Winckelmann’s theories and writings, proves to be a linchpin for modern ideas about the diffusion, appropriation, and musealization of art.

The first day of the conference will focus on the ‘culture’ of imitation. Winckelmann famously claimed, paradoxically, that one has to imitate Greece in order to become inimitable. From a range of historical and artistic perspectives, papers map the consequences this claim had for art’s theory, practice, and body politics since the eighteenth century.

The second day will discuss the ‘nature’ of imitation, and the consequences of the ecological boundaries set for it by Winckelmann. It will explore the implications of Winckelmann’s climate theory for neoclassical geographies of art and contemporary debates on aesthetic relativism in the age of nationalism.

The conference is free of charge. Pre-registration is required. Places are limited, in particular for The British Museum ‘Walking seminar’, and therefore admission can only be granted to those with booking confirmation.

The conference is organised by Katherine Harloe (Reading University), Hans Christian Hönes (The Warburg Institute / Bilderfahrzeuge Research Group), Daniel Orrells (King’s College London) and Sadie Pickup (Christie’s). Additional support has been provided by The British Museum, the Institute of Classical Studies, and Christie’s Education.

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T H U R S D A Y ,  1 5  J U N E  2 0 1 7
King’s College London

13:00  Daniel Orrells (KCL) and Katherine Harloe (Reading), Introduction

13:15  William Fitzgerald (KCL), The Contour of Antiquity: Flaxman’s Iliad

14:00  Daniel Orrells (KCL), Visualising Antiquity in the Eighteenth Century

14:45  Coffee break

15:00  Kate Nichols (Birmingham), A Jewish Ajax in an Australian Gold Mining Town: Reforming the Classical Body in Late Victorian Visual Culture

16:00  Verity Platt (Cornell), Winckelmann’s Pharmacy: Description and the Phantasia of Restoration

16:45  Break

17:00  Whitney Davis (Berkeley), Imitation and Narcissism: Winckelmann under Psychoanalysis

18:00  Reception

F R I D A Y ,  1 6  J U N E  20 1 7
The Warburg Institute / The British Museum

10:00  Hans Christian Hönes (BFZ), Introduction

10:15  Aris Sarafianos (Ioannina/Birkbeck), Convenient Misunderstandings: Meteocultural Models in Britain, 1755–1830

11:00  Coffee break

11:30  Natasha Eaton (UCL), The Sublimity of Decline: Winckelmann in India

12:15  Athena Leoussi (Reading), Beauty and the Sun: Aesthetics and Climate in the Making of the Modern European Nations

13:00  Lunch break

14:00  Mechthild Fend (UCL), Beauty in an ‘Unusual Guise’: On Colour and Adaptation

14:45  Richard Wrigley (Nottingham), Winckelmann and Rome: An Aerial Perspective

15:30  Coffee break

16:00  Pascal Griener (Neuchatel), Winckelmann and Jacob Burckhardt: The Life of Antique Statues in the Modern Museum

16:45  Closing remarks / Roundtable

17:45  Ian Jenkins (Senior Curator of Greek and Roman Antiquities), ‘Walking Seminar’ at The British Museum

20:00  Reception