Journal18, Spring 2024 — Color
The latest issue of J18:
Journal18, Issue #17 (Spring 2024) — Color
Issue edited by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Thea Goldring
Color has been at the center of artistic debates at least since the seventeenth century, and it has remained a key issue in the historiography of art. Recent research has largely pursued two directions. First, color has been studied as a material substance and a technology. Scholars have documented the relation between technological, industrial, and commercial developments and the quality, range, and availability of pigments and colorants available to artists, manufacturers, and consumers. A second approach has focused on the key role of color in the construction of social, racial, colonial, and gender hierarchies. Recent scholarship has revealed the intimate connection between aesthetic debates on chroma and the development of the modern discourse of race. The eighteenth century’s feminization of color, linked to make-up and artifice, has also been reexamined. Clearly, it is no longer viable to think of color or its materials, technologies, and processes in purely aesthetic, ideologically innocent terms. This issue of Journal18 considers what is at stake now in reconsidering color in its historical dimensions by bringing these two lines of research together.
The four articles and two notes in this issue explore how the current interest in materiality and the matter of art might be harnessed to alter—enrich, complicate, or challenge—our understanding of the historical functions and socio-cultural meanings of color in the long eighteenth century. . . .
a r t i c l e s
Andrea Feeser — When Blue and White Obscure Black and Red: Conditions of Wedgwood’s 1787 Antislavery Medallion
Caroline Culp — Embalming in Color: John Singleton Copley’s Vital Portraits at the Edge of Empire
Tong Su — Color in Taxidermy at the Eighteenth-Century Qing Court
Melissa Hyde — Men in Pink: The Petit-Maître, Refined Masculinity, and Whiteness
s h o r t e r p i e c e s
Tori Champion — Catherine Perrot: Color, Gender, and Medium in the Seventeenth-Century Académie
Philippe Colomban — The Quest for the Western Colors in China under the Qing Emperors
Conference | Congress of Historical Botanical Gardens
From ArtHist.net and the conference website:
Prevention of Historical Botanical Gardens and Their Heritage from the Major Threats of Our Time
2nd International Congress of Historical Botanical Gardens
HBLFA für Gartenbau / College of Horticulture, Wien, 29–31 July 2024
Registration due by 30 June 2024
Historical botanical gardens and historical plant collections embedded in a larger context are often a neglected topic. Especially in the field of garden history, landscape architecture, botany, history of science, and even art history, their importance cannot be overestimated. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in these fields of research. In 2021, the 1st International Congress of Historical Botanical Gardens was held in Lisbon.
The initial impulse to communicating the issues and importance of botanic gardens to a broader public, highlighting their history and importance, and building a common network will be continued at the 2nd International Congress of Historical Botanical Gardens. The second meeting will expand the focus to include conservation and preservation of plants and gardens. How can we protect historical botanical gardens and their heritage from the major threats of our time, such as lack of resources, climate change, war, and conflicts of all kinds? What can we learn from the often turbulent past?
The three organizing institutions (Austrian Federal Gardens, Natural History Museum, Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna) were founded by the Habsburg emperors for scientific and representative reasons. For more than 450 years, these institutions have collected, cultivated, studied and exhibited plants in Vienna. This long and continuous tradition makes Vienna one of the most important locations for current and historic plant research and conservation. Building on this tradition and moving forth together, we look forward to welcoming you to Vienna for the Second International Congress of Historical Botanical Gardens.
m o n d a y , 2 9 j u l y
9:00 Welcome Addresses
• Norbert Totschnig (Austrian Federal Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Regions and Water Management)
• Dalila Espírito Santo (Head of Organization of the 1st ICHBG 2021, University Lisbon)
• Tim Entwisle (International Association of Botanic Gardens, IABG)
• Gerd Koch (College of Horticulture and Austrian Federal Gardens
• Katrin Vohland (Natural History Museum, Vienna)
• Michael Kiehn (Botanical Garden, University of Vienna)
10:00 Keynote
• Botany, History, and Biodiversity: New Horizons for the Jardin des Plantes de Paris — Isabelle Glais (Jardin des Plantes de Paris)
10:30 Coffee Break
10.50 Session 1 | The Transition of Historical Botanical Collections
• A Phoenix from the Ashes: The Transition of the Court Gardens to the Austrian Federal Gardens — Claudia Gröschel (Austrian Federal Gardens)
• Paleis Het Loo: From Royal Showcase towards a Decolonized Botanical Garden — Renske Ek (Palais Het Loo)
• The Role of Curation in Botanic Gardens: Platforms for Environmental and Social Transition — Kevin Frediani (Botanic Garden, University of Dundee)
• Art and Art Projects at the Historic Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna — Barbara Knickmann (Botanical Garden, University of Vienna)
12.10 Lunch
13.45 Afternoon Sessions
• Restoration Saga of the Only Croatian Public Greenhouse — Vanja Stamenkovic (Botanical Garden, University of Zagreb)
• The Impact of Climate Change on the Living Collections of the Botanic Garden of the University of Pisa — Marco D‘Antraccoli (Botanic Garden, University of Pisa)
• The Botanical Garden in Halle (Saale) through the Ages — Heike Tenzer (State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony Anhalt)
• Decolonizing the Dutch Botanical Gardens — Sarina Veldman (Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam)
• A Healing Place: The Modern Botanic Garden as a Reimagined Physic Garden — Tim Entwisle (International Association of Botanic Gardens, Australia)
16.00 Natural History Museum — Visit of archive and collection of botanical illustrations, herbarium, and rooftop
18.00 Natural History Museum — Poster session and cocktail reception
t u e s d a y , 3 0 j u l y
9.00 Keynote
• Horticulture in the Age of Globalization, Biological Invasions, and Climate Change — Franz Essl (University of Vienna, Austria)
9.30 Session 2 | Horticulture: Challenges in Daily Horticulture Practice
• The Transfer towards Working with the Environment in a Historical Garden — Willem Zieleman (Palais Het Loo, Netherlands)
• Theory and Practice of Recreating Exotic Plant Collections in European Historic Gardens — Jacek Kuśmierski (Museum of King Jan III’s Palace at Wilanów, Poland) and Katarzyna Hodor (Cracow University of Technology)
• Charm and Harm of the Indian Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) in a Historic Landscape Garden — Vince Zsigmond (National Botanic Garden Vácrátót, Hungary)
10.20 Coffee Break
10.40 Keynote
• Zagreb University Botanical Garden: 135 Years of Sharing Botanical Knowledge, High Hopes, and Practical Challenges — Sanja Kovacic ́(University of Zagreb)
11.10 Session 3 | Science: Sharing of Knowledge
• Heritage Skills in Historic Gardens: Conserving for the Future — Kate Nicoll (gardenconservation.eu, Norway) and Christian Grüßen (European Garden Heritage Network, Germany)
• Herbaria: Essays for a Material and Postnaturalist Memory of Botany and Film — Paula Bertúa (Leuphania University, Germany)
• A Park with Paths of Knowledge in the 18th Century: Challenges and Manifestations — Martina Sitt (University of Kassel)
12.10 Lunch
13.30 Afternoon Sessions
• Cultivation of Sensitive Plants at Belvedere Garden — Michael Knaack (Austrian Federal Gardens)
• The Hungarian Plant Names in Carolus Clusius’s Works in the Context of His Botanical Program — Áron Orbán (Tokaj University)
14.10 Coffee Break
14.45 Back-up collection at Schönbrunn Palace Garden
16.00 Palmhouse Schönbrunn
19.30 Conference Dinner, Palmhouse Burggarten
w e d n e s d a y , 3 1 j u l y
9.00 Keynote
• The Making of a Historical Botanical Garden — Santiago Madriñán (University of Bogotá and Botanic Garden Cartagena, Colombia)
9.30 Session 4 | Historical Botanical Gardens
• The Puccini Garden in Tuscany: A Celebratory Landscape Park and Its 19th-Century Botanical Cultivations — Costantino Ceccanti (Musei del Bargello, Florence)
• Arboretum Trsteno of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts: The Garden with the Historically Longest Continuity on the Territory of the Republic of Croatia — Ivan Šimić (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts) and Mara Marić (University of Dubrovnik)
• How Botanical Gardens Helped To Shape International Trade Law — Elena Falletti (Carlo Cattaneo University, Castellanza)
10.30 Coffee Break
• Luca Ghini and the Origin of Modern Botany: An Italian History of Academic Botanic Gardens — Marco D‘Antraccoli (Botanic Garden, University of Pisa)
• Methods of Visually Experiencing Lost Historical Botanical Gardens — Dominik Lengyel (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg)
• The Historical Botanical Gardens in Algiers, Kiev, and Tunis and Their Cooperation Projects with the Republic of Austria — Brigitte Mang (University College for Agricultural and Environmental Education, Vienna)
• Building the Botanical Garden for Roma Capitale: History, Architecture, Characters — Giulia Ceriani Sebregondi (University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’)
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Afternoon Session
• The Botanic Garden and Museum of the University of Pisa: Five Centuries of Botanical Research, from Simples to New Frontiers — Marco D‘Antraccoli (Botanic Garden, University of Pisa)
13.20 Concluding Remarks by Michael Kiehn
13.50 Coffee Break
15.15 Botanical Garden University of Vienna
16.45 Back-up collection Belvedere Garden
18.00 Farewell
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