Symposium | Sculpture Collecting and Display, 1600–2000
From The Frick:
Sculpture Collecting and Display, 1600–2000
The Frick Collection, New York, 19–20 May 2017
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Ugolino and His Sons, 1865–67 (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
Presented by the Center for the History of Collecting, Frick Art Reference Library, this two-day symposium will showcase how approaches to collecting and displaying sculpture have varied and changed over the centuries, from the Kunstkammer of late Renaissance princes, to the sculpture galleries of the eighteenth century, to garden sculpture ensembles and, finally to the challenges of displaying sculpture in public museums. Tickets for both days are $50 ($35 for members); single-day tickets are $30 ($25 for members). The symposium is made possible through the support of the Robert H. Smith Family Foundation.
F R I D A Y , 1 9 M A Y 2 0 1 7
3:15 Registration
3:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks by Ian Wardropper (Director, The Frick Collection) and Inge Reist (Director, Center for the History of Collecting, Frick Art Reference Library)
3:45 Keynote Address
• Malcolm Baker (Distinguished Professor, University of California, Riverside), What Do We Mean by a ‘Sculpture Collection’?
4:30 Coffee break
4:55 Wunderkammer and Kunstkammer: Mixing the Media
• Jeremy Warren, Honorary Curator of Sculpture, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and Sculpture Research Curator, The National Trust), The Collecting of Small Bronze Sculptures in Renaissance Italy
• Michael Yonan (Associate Professor of Art History, University of Missouri), Porcelain as Sculpture: Medium, Materiality, and the Categories of Eighteenth-Century Collecting
• Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann (Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University), Messy History? Sculpture Collecting and the Kunstkammer
6:25 Questions from the Audience
S A T U R D A Y , 2 0 M A Y 2 0 1 7
10:00 Registration
10:15 Welcome by Inge Reist (Director, Center for the History of Collecting, Frick Art Reference Library)
10:25 Garden Sculptures as Collections
• Betsy Rosasco (Research Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, Princeton University Art Museum), Versailles, Marly, Dresden: Magnificence and Its Limits
• Julius Bryant (Keeper of Word & Image, Victoria and Albert Museum), Gentlemen Prefer Bronze: Garden Sculpture and Sculpture Gardens in Eighteenth-Century England
11:25 Coffee break
11:50 Sculpture Galleries
• Jeffrey Collins (Professor, Bard Graduate Center), Staging Statues: The Challenge of the Group
• Anne-Lise Desmas (Curator and Department Head of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The J. Paul Getty Museum), The ‘Gallerie du S.r Girardon Sculpteur Ordinaire du Roy’
12:50 Lunch break
11:50 Sculpture Galleries, continued
• Alison Yarrington (Professor of Art History and Dean of the School of Arts, English, Drama and Publishing, Loughborough University), Myth, Memory, and Marble: The Country House Sculpture Gallery in the Post-Napoleonic Period
2:45 The Changing Place of Sculpture in the Public Museum
• Andrew McClellan (Professor of Art History, Tufts University), The Problem of Sculpture in the Public Museum
• Alan Darr (Senior Curator of the European Art Department and Walter B. Ford II Family Curator of European Sculpture & Decorative Arts, Detroit Institute of Arts), The Legacy of William Valentiner in Shaping the Display of European Sculpture in American Museums, 1900–Present: Case Studies
• James Fenton and Ian Wardropper in Conversation: Collecting Sculpture for Private and Public Collections during the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
Conference | The Art of Beefing it Up
From The Museum of English Rural Life:
The Art of Beefing it Up
The Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading, 19 June 2017
Registration due by 1 June 2017
A one-day conference on how paintings and prints of farm livestock functioned during the late-18th and early-19th centuries. Spaces are limited, please book by 1 June 2017. Cost includes buffet lunch and refreshments.
P R O G R A M M E
9.30 Registration and coffee
9.45 Morning Session
• Ollie Douglas, Fat Beasts at the Museum of English Rural Life
• Hilary Matthews, The Woburn Sheepshearing
• Lawrence Weaver, The Iconic Paintings of Thomas Weaver
11.30 Coffee break
11.45 Visit to see relevant paintings, prints, artefacts, and archives in the Museum
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Afternoon Session
• Alison Wright, Paul Potter on the Thames: Landscape and Cattle Painting in Early-19th-Century Britain
• Pat Stanley, The Bakewell Effect
15.30 Panel discussion chaired by Jeremy Burchardt
16.00 Tea and departure
Conference | The Country House Revived?
From the conference programme:
The 15th Annual Historic Houses Conference: The Country House Revived?
Dublin Castle, 19–21 June 2017
The focus of this conference is the survival and revival of historic houses in Ireland, the UK, and Europe in the course of the last fifty years. Across Europe increasing numbers of houses are opening their doors to the public, presenting and interpreting their histories in imaginative ways, looking to engage with local communities, and to diversify in terms of commercial activities. This holds true for houses in private ownership as well as for those in the guardianship of national heritage organisations, local authorities, or other bodies. Historic houses and their landscapes are uniquely poised to take advantage of international and domestic trends in cultural tourism and heritage learning. The historic house in all its manifestations remains a constant feature in the curriculum, from scholarly study to heritage, conservation, and management training, and the creative arts. The enduring relevance of the historic house is also defined by its role as an important economic driver at local, regional, and national levels.
Growing numbers of houses are engaging in numerous ways with the external world as opposed to feeling beleaguered and retreating behind closed doors. How do we assess this recent history? Every house operates under its own unique circumstances, influenced by governance, ownership, funding, scholarly investigation, national trends, or other factors. There is no single model for historic houses: each one makes different choices for creating a sustainable future. There are many definitions of the concept of ‘revival’. The Country House Revived? is aimed at a wide audience of owners, scholars, students, heritage professionals, policy makers, and the many people with a general interest in the built heritage. Papers will examine a variety of topics and perspectives from across Europe, comparing issues and experiences that have affinities as well as contrasts. The conference will also explore ways in which this sector of the built heritage can foster future collaborative activity.
Accompanying the conference will be a photographic exhibition illustrating a variety of houses from across Ireland, the UK, and Europe, and chronicling their recent past.
More information is available here»
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M O N D A Y , 1 9 J U N E 2 0 1 7
11.00 Registration and Coffee
12.00 Welcome and Introduction
12.30 The Wider View 1
• Ben Cowell, Historic Houses Association
• Loyd Grossman, Heritage Alliance Speaker, Europa Nostra, TBC
13.45 Lunch
14.30 Case Studies 1
• John Munro, Ledreborg, Denmark
• Terezia Bardi, Esterhazy Palace, Hungary
• Elyze Storms-Smeets, Houses of Gelderland, Netherlands
• James Hervey Bathurst, Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire
15.45 Tea
16.15 Case Studies 2
• Stephanos Germenis, Blatna, Czech Republic
• Claudius Wecke, Branitz Castle and Park, Germany
• Hilary McGrady, Clandon Park and the National Trust
• Dorothea Depner, Castletown House, Co Kildare
17.30 Break
17.45 Terence Dooley, Reflections on the Historic Irish House Today
18.45 Tour and Reception, Dublin Castle
T U E S D A Y , 2 0 J U N E 2 0 1 7
9.00 Coffee
9.30 Case Studies 3
• Koen de Vlieger-de Wilde, Kasteel d’Ursel, Belgium
• Balazs Banyai, Nadasdy House, Hungary
• Friederike Drinkuth, Country Houses in Mecklenberg Western-Pomerania
• Petr Svoboda, Uholicky, Czech Republic
10.45 Coffee
11.15 The Wider View 2
• Annie Tindley, Scottish Country Houses
• Kevin Baird, Irish Heritage Trust
• Rodolphe de Looz-Corswarem, European Historic Houses Association Speaker, European Cultural Tourism Network, TBC
12.30 Picnic Lunch Farmleigh
14.00 Depart for Castletown House
14.45 Tour of Castletown House
16.00 Ways and Means, Ireland
• Julian Gaisford St Lawrence, Irish Historic Houses Association
• Charles Colthurst, Blarney Castle, Co Cork
• Martin Colreavy, DAHRRG
17.15 Reception
18.15 Depart for Maynooth University
18.45 Tour of Pugin Buildings, Maynooth University
19.30 Dinner, Pugin Hall
22.00 Return to Dublin
W E D N E S D A Y , 2 1 J U N E 2 0 1 7
9.00 Coffee
9.30 Ruins, Recovery, and Re-Use
• John Goodall, Country Life Magazine
• Julia Korensky, English Ruins
• Matthew Beckett, England’s Lost Heritage
• Merlin Waterson, Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire
10.45 Coffee
11.15 Case Studies 4
• James Birch, Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire
• Britta Andersen, Gammel Estrup, Denmark
• Alexandre de Vogue, Vaux-le-Vicomte
• Frances Bailey, National Trust, Northern Ireland
12.30 Lunch
13.45 Scholarship and the Country House
• Martin Postle, Paul Mellon Centre, London
• David Adshead, Attingham Trust
• Leo Schmidt, BTU Cottbus, Germany
• Myles Campbell, Office of Public Works
15.00 Tea
15.30 Christopher Ridgway, How Stands the Country House Now?
16.15 Closing Remarks
Symposium | The Splendour of the Dining Room
From Haughton International:
The Splendour of the Dining Room
Haughton International Ceramics Seminar
Christie’s, London, 28–29 June 2017
Temple of Honour (Ehrentempel), Meissen, hard-paste porcelain, ca. 1750 (Porzellansammlung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Photo: Jürgen Karpinski).
Over the past 35 years, Brian & Anna Haughton have organised the International Ceramics Seminar as the nucleus of their annual art and antiques fair held in London each June. Every year the Seminar included the latest ceramic research, often ground-breaking, presented by an international rostrum of the leading scholars. The Haughtons’ contribution to ceramic scholarship has been immeasurable, providing opportunities for collectors, curators, independent researchers and enthusiasts to meet, network, exchange ideas, plan exhibitions and publications. In the absence of their annual fair and in order to keep the focus and continuity on ceramics in London in June, they have partnered with Christie’s to launch a two-day seminar with the support and encouragement from their academic colleagues. The seminar will, as always, cover a wide range of ceramic subjects and their relationships with other art forms such as silver and sculpture. Ceramics have always had a central place in the social background of the 18th century and were also important as diplomatic princely gifts, laid out on tables during state and important social occasions as highly political symbols of power and prestige.
Cost of two-day Seminar, held at Christie’s, 8 King Street, St James’s, London: £45 (inc VAT). Cost of two-day Seminar including dinner at The Athenaeum (Wednesday 28th June): £75 (inc VAT). Student Tickets for two-day Seminar only (on production of ID): £25 (inc VAT). Booking in advance through the website is essential due to limited numbers. The programme is subject to change without warning.
The speakers will include
• Kathryn Jones (Senior Curator of Decorative Arts, Royal Collection Trust, London), Very Massive and Handsome: George IV’s Grand Service and the Royal Table
• Timothy Wilson (Former Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), Italian Maiolica Table Services: For Use or for Display?
• Claudia Lehner-Jobst (Art Historian and Curator, Vienna), Fasting and Feasting: Novelties at the Imperial Tables during the Reign of Maria Theresa
• Katharina Hantschmann (Keeper of Ceramics, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, and Ernst Schneider Meissen porcelain Collection bequest at Lustheim Castle), Bustelli and the Impact of Meissen on the Nymphenburg Factory
• Ivan Day (Food Historian, Museums and Country House Consultant), Dining and Hospitality in 18th-Century English Provincial Towns and Cities
• Timothy Schroder (Silver Historian, Curator and former Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths Company), Magnificence: State Banquets in the Reign of Henry VIII
• Paul Crane (Ceramic Historian, London), Inspired by Marine Forms: Early English Porcelain Transforms the Dining Table
• Patricia Ferguson (Project Curator, Monument Trust, 18th Century Prints and Ceramics, British Museum, London, and Hon. Adviser on Ceramics, National Trust), Felbrigg’s Folly: Meissen Porcelain Temples for the Dessert Table
• Melitta Kunze-Koellensperger (Curator, independent researcher and Art Historian), The Dutch Village of Meissen Porcelain: Count Brühl’s Dessert de Luxe
• Rosalind Savill (Former Director of the Wallace Collection, London), From Salt Cellars to Sweetmeat Baskets: Dining with Sèvres Porcelain in the 18th Century
• Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere (IFAC Handa Curator of the Japanese Arts, The British Museum, London, and founding Director of the Sainsbury Institute, Norwich), Celebration of Form and Function: Insights into Japanese Dining Traditions from the Jômon Period to the Present Day
• Rebecca Wallis (Curator, Ceramics & Glass, Victoria and Albert Museum, London), Dining in Style: 19th-Century Services in the Victoria and Albert Museum
• Suzanne Lambooy (Curator of Applied Arts, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague), Dutch Dining Culture in the Second Half of the 18th Century: The Diplomacy of the Table
• David Mitchell (Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Linen Damask Napery, Henry VIII and the Northern Renaissance
Symposium | Visualising Learning in France, 1500–1830
From the Centre for French History and Culture at St Andrews:
Visualising Learning in France, 1500–1830
St Andrews, 24–25 May 2017
Generously supported by the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Society for French Studies, The Centre for French History and Culture, School of Art History, and School of History, University of St Andrews
The event is free but places are limited. Please register by emailing ljg21@st-andrews.ac.uk (Linda Goddard) by 15 May, indicating day 1, 2, or both.
New Seminar Room, School of History, South Street, St Andrews
W E D N E S D A Y , 2 4 M A Y 2 0 1 7
9.30 Tea/coffee and welcome
10.00 Susanna Berger (University of Southern California / Villa I Tatti), Siegmund Jacob Apin on Visual Learning in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe
11.00 David Pullins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology / The Frick Collection), Visualizing Drawing: Cochin, the Encyclopédie and the livres à dessiner Tradition
12.00 Lunch
1.00 Katie Scott (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Hannah Williams (Queen Mary University of London), Objects of Learning: Houdon’s Écorché and Oppenord’s Ripa
2.00 Stephanie O’Rourke (University of St Andrews), Histories of the Self in the Trioson Portrait Series
3.00 Coffee
3.30 Charles Kang (Columbia University), Trees of Blood: Injection and Representation
4.30 General discussion
5.00 Reception
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9.30 Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of St Andrews), Cultivating Utility: Amateur Botany, Taste, and Floriculture in Late-Eighteenth-Century France
10.30 Richard Taws (University College London), The Echo Chamber of the French Revolution
11.30 Coffee
11.45 Mary Orr (University of St Andrews), Colouring the Science of the Past: The Arts of Learning for the Present?
Poster image: Jean-Baptiste Greuze, A Boy with a Lesson-Book (detail), exhibited 1757 (National Galleries Scotland).
Workshop | Printed Stone: Sculpture and Its Images
From the workshop registration page:
Printed Stone: Sculpture and Its Images
Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, 12 June 2017
Organized by by Brigid von Preussen and Cora Gilroy-Ware
This interdisciplinary workshop will explore the relationship between sculpture and its printed images, whether produced for reasons of commerce or conservation, public edification or private gain. Our participants will interrogate the process of translation and mediation between two and three dimensions, asking how the materiality of different forms of sculpture has been rendered using various technologies of print-making, from the creation of an intaglio plate to advanced digital mapping techniques and 3D printing. We welcome the attendance and contribution of anyone interested in larger questions of representation, reproduction, materiality, media, technology, and process. Monday, 12 June 2017, 9:30–3:30; Common Ground, South Wing, Wilkins Building, Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London.
Keynote Speaker: Alex Potts (University of Michigan).
Participants include: Malcolm Baker (University of California, Riverside), Allison Stielau (University College London), Richard Taws (University College London), Danielle Thom (Museum of London), Emma Payne (University College London), and Cora Gilroy-Ware (Institute of Advanced Studies).
Organised by Cora Gilroy-Ware (Institute of Advanced Studies) and Brigid von Preussen (Columbia University) with the generous support of the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of London.
For further information, please contact Cora or Brigid: c.gilroy-ware@ucl.ac.uk and bev2105@columbia.edu. For free registration, please see printedstone.eventbrite.com.
Symposium | Freemasonry and the Visual Arts
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
Conference | Heritage and Revolution: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
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
Conference | Rococo in Scandinavia
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.
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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
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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.
Conference | Imitation and Geographies of Art after Winckelmann
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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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
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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
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