Conference | Fans as Images, Accessories, and Instruments of Gesture
From H-ArtHist:
‘Num’rous Uses, Motions, Charms, and Arts’: Fans as Images, Accessories, and Instruments of Gesture in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Der Faecher als Bild, Accessoire und gestisches Instrument im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert
Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Zürich, 29 November — 1 December 2017
Organized by Danijela Bucher, Fabienne Ruppen, and Miriam Volmert
This interdisciplinary conference discusses the cultural role of European folding fans in art, fashion, and material culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In eighteenth-century Europe, fans became important fashion accessories across social classes and were almost omnipresent in social interaction. Painted and printed fans presented a wide variety of social knowledge through fast and fleeting pictures, in this way conveying personal statements of those who carried them. Early modern fan depictions were often inspired by or based on Renaissance and contemporary paintings. In the course of the eighteenth century, fan leaves displayed an increasing variety of cultural themes, thereby also functioning as souvenirs as well as conveyors of political and social messages.
The conference aims to take a closer look at the pictorial and intermedial interplay of ornamental patterns, figurative elements, and artistic subject matters against the background of European fan manufacture, artistic networks and international trade. Furthermore, it seeks to closer examine fans as gender-specific instruments of gesture and communication. The conference is funded by Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (SNF), Graduate Campus der Universität Zürich, and UZH Alumni. Please direct any questions to miriam.volmert@khist.uzh.ch.
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20.00 Welcome and introduction
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9.15 Welcome (Bettina Gockel) and introduction (Danijela Bucher and Miriam Volmert)
9.30 I | Fans as Accessories and Instruments of Gesture
Moderation: Danijela Bucher and Miriam Volmert
• Pascale Cugy, ‘La Dame paroist badiner avec son Eventail qu’elle porte au coin de sa bouche’: Les éventails dans la gravure de mode féminine sous Louis XIV
• Allison Goudie, The 18th-Century Mask Fan: More than the Sum of its Parts
• Pierre-Henri Biger, Faux et vrais langages de l’éventail
11.00 Coffee
11.30 II | History Painting on Folding Fans in the late 17th and in the 18th Centuries
Moderation: Fabienne Ruppen
• Christl Kammerl-Baum, Bilder-Sprache auf Fächern – eine ikonographische und ikonologische Bedeutungsanalyse anhand eines Fallbeispiels
• Georgina Letourmy-Bordier, De Coriolan à la rosière de Salency, le héros et l’incarnation de la vertu au XVIIIe siècle
12.30 Lunch
14.00 III | Fans as Media of Memory and Souvenirs in the 18th Century
Moderation: Miriam Volmert
• Mary Kitson, ‘Thanks for the Memory’: Typical Imagery of the Grand Tour Fan Leaf
• Heiner Krellig, Souvenir der Grand Tour: Ein Fächer als Erinnerung an Venedig
• Adelheid Müller, Reputation in Falten: Elisa von der Reckes Autographenfächer, ein Zeugnis selbstvergewissernder Positionierung
15.30 Coffee
16.00 IV | Fans as Political Media in 18th-Century France
Moderation: Danijela Bucher
• Aurore Chéry, La représentation de la famille royale de France sur les éventails du XVIIIe siècle
• Rolf Reichardt, Bild-Kompositionen revolutionärer Faltfächer in Frankreich, 1789–94
17.00 Discussion
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9.00 Introduction
9.15 V | Artistic Networks, Paths of Reception, and Production Sites
Moderation: Patrizia Munforte
• Kirsty Hassard, Sarah Ashton and Her Contemporaries: Female Fan Makers and Publishers in 18th-Century London
• Geneviève Dutoit, Les éventails décorés d’après les œuvres d’Angelica Kauffmann à la fin du XVIIIème et du début du XIXème siècle
10.15 Coffee
10.45 VI | Fans in the Context of Historical Material and Textile Cultures
Moderation: Katharina Haack
• Suet May Lam, From Ephemeral to Eternal: Unfolding Early Modern ‘Fashion’ for Asia
• Isa Fleischmann-Heck, Textile Dekore auf Fächerblättern des 18. Jahrhunderts – Formen, Erscheinung, Wirkung
11.45 End of Public Conference Program
Afternoon Workshop (Limited to Conference Speakers) at the Collection Centre of the Swiss National Museum, Affoltern am Albis
14.30 Round Table | Fans in Museum Collections
Markus Leuthard, Welcome
• Mathilde Semal, L’éventail du XVIIIe siècle, véritable attribut social ? La richesse des montures de la collection Preciosa (Musée du Cinquantenaire, Bruxelles)
• Annette Kniep/Maike Piecuch, Neulagerung und Konservierung der Fächer im Bernischen Historischen Museum – Konzept und Umsetzung
• Yolaine Voltz, Principes et compromis de la restauration des éventails : étude de cas particuliers
15.30 Guided Tour
Conservation and Restoration of Fans in the Swiss National Museum with Nikkibarla Calonde, Véronique Mathieu, and Isabel Keller
Call for Papers | Women Inventors in Architecture, 1700–2000
From SAH:
Women Inventors in Architecture, 1700–2000
International Archive of Women in Architecture 2018 Symposium
School of Architecture + Design, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, 28–30 March 2018
Proposals due by 15 December 2017
For centuries, women in architecture have been involved in pushing the boundaries of architecture and architectural practice. Whether as registered architects, members and leaders of architectural firms, academics and scholars, or in any of the less conventional capacities, women have helped transform the discipline of architecture and the related design fields shaping the built environment. The 2018 IAWA Symposium invites abstracts that address specific women or gendered natures of architectural invention. We welcome papers that tackle subjects or inventions generated between the years 1700-2000, and that are international or domestic in scope. We seek papers that conceptualize architectural invention in its many guises, including (but not limited to) ideas, technology, form-making, modes of professional practice that present views into and histories of practices of women in architecture. We encourage abstracts that address how women’s practices have been expanded through invention, as well as how architectural practice has been expanded or impacted by inventions by women.
Please email 300-word abstract and a one-page CV to Donna Dunay, Chair, Board of Advisors, International Archive of Women in Architecture Center (ddunay@vt.edu) with the subject heading ‘2018 IAWA Symposium’.
The International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) was established in 1985 as a joint program of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies and the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. The purpose of the Archive is to document the history of women’s contributions to the built environment by collecting, preserving, and providing access to the records of women’s architectural organizations and the professional papers of women architects, landscape architects, designers, architectural historians and critics, and urban planners as well as the records of women’s architectural organizations, from around the world.
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