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Photo by Daniel Schwen, 18 April 2009
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The 2014 College Art Association conference takes place at the Hilton, Chicago (720 S. Michigan Ave), February 12–15. HECAA will be represented by two panels on Saturday, chaired by Kristel Smentek and Kevin Chua. Other sessions that may be of interest for dixhuitièmistes are also listed. A full schedule of panels is available here»

H E C A A  S E S S I O N S

Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture
New Scholars Open Session: The Eighteenth Century, Global and Local
Saturday, 15 February, 12:30–2:00, Hilton Chicago, 2nd Floor, International South
Chair: Kristel Smentek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1. The Threads that Bind: Luxury, Slavery, and the Circulation of South Asian Textiles between France and India, Liza L. Oliver, Northwestern University
2. Objects of Terror: The Image and Spectacle of Punishment in Hogarth’s London, Meredith J. Gamer, Yale University
3. Facing Age and Aging Faces: Marie-Thérèse Geoffrin and Her Pendule, Jessica Fripp, Parsons The New School for Design

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Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture
After the Secular: Art and Religion in the Eighteenth Century
Saturday, 15 February, 2:30–5:00, Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor, Williford A&B
Chair: Kevin M. Chua, Texas Tech University

1. The Dôme des Invalides: Sublimity, Religious Rhetoric, and Aesthetic Experience in Early Eighteenth-Century France, Aaron Wile, Harvard University
2. Theism and Secularization in James Barry’s Society of Arts Murals, Daniel R. Guernsey, Florida International University
3. The Saving Heart-Knowledge, and the Soaring Airy Head-Knowledge: Quaker Aesthetics as an Agent of Cure in Lunatic Asylum Design, Ann-Marie Akehurst, University of York
4. The Mother of Light in New Spain, Bernard J. Cesarone, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
5. Miracles in the Age of Reason, Hannah Williams, University of Oxford

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Historians of British Art
Queer Gothic
Wednesday, 12 February, 9:30–12:00, Hilton Chicago, Lobby Level, Continental A
Chairs: Ayla Lepine, University of Nottingham; Matthew Mark Reeve, Queen’s University

1. The Perverse Visibility of William Beckford, Dominic Janes, Birkbeck, University of London
2. Neither Sorrow Nor Crying: Twentieth-Century Gothic Bodies and Heavenly Visions, Ayla Lepine, University of Nottingham
3. Soi-disant Gothicisms: The Rejection of Gothic Hybridity in the Nineteenth Century, Sarah E. Thompson, Rochester Institute of Technology
4. Medieval Monstrosity: Francis Bacon’s Flesh, Jongwoo Jeremy Kim, University of Louisville

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American Council for Southern Asian Art
Artistic Practices in the Long Eighteenth Century
Wednesday, 12 February, 12:30–2:00, Hilton Chicago, Lobby Level, Continental B
Chair: Yuthika Sharma, Goethe-Universität

1. Copying Contexts: Picturing Places and Histories in Udaipur Court Painting and Picart’s Atlas Historique, Dipti Khera, New York University
2. Forging New Identities: The Role of the Artist in Eighteenth-Century Northern India, Malini Roy, The British Library, London
3. The Divine Surface: Thanjavur Painting, Seventeeth-Nineteenth Centuries, Caroline Duke, University of California, Berkeley
4. Maratha Art and Moor’s Hindu Pantheon (1810), Holly Shaffer, Yale University

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The Erotic Gaze in Early Modern Europe
Thursday, 13 February, 9:30–12:00, Hilton Chicago, Lobby Level, Continental B
Chairs: Joe A. Thomas, Kennesaw State University; Elizabeth Pilliod, Rutgers University-Camden, The State University of New Jersey

1. Devotion, Desire, and Difference: Images of Christ and of Susanna,Patricia L. Simons, University of Michigan
2. Alchemy: The Erotic Science, M. E. Warlick, University of Denver
3. Pleasure on Paper: Agostino Carracci’s Lascivie Prints and the Gaze that Met Them, Natalie Lussey, University of Edinburgh
4. Disgust and Desire: Responses to Rembrandt’s Nudes, Stephanie S. Dickey, Queen’s University
5. Doggie Style: Rococo Representations of Interspecies Sensuality and the Pursuit of Volupté, Jennifer D. Milam, University of Sydney

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Historians of British Art
British Country Houses: Architecture, Collections, and Gardens
Thursday, 13 February, 12:30–2:00, Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor, Williford A&B
Chair: Craig Ashley Hanson, Calvin College

1. ‘Both Instructive and Pleasant’: The Country House Garden in Vitruvius Britannicus, William Coleman, University of California, Berkeley
2. From Stowe to Mount Edgcumbe: Touring Collections in Gardens, Jocelyn Anderson, Courtauld Institute of Art
3. William Kent’s Decorative Scheme in Stowe’s North Hall (ca. 1728), Laurel Peterson, Yale University

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Historians of British Art
Business Meeting / Young Scholars Session
Thursday, February 13, 5:30–7:00, Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor, Marquette Room
Moderated by Colette Crossman and then chaired by Jongwoo Jeremy Kim

1. Modern Banditti: Colonial Masculine Artistic Identity and Topographical Photography in India, Nathaniel M. Stein, Brown University
2. ‘Science is Measurement’: The Uneasy Evolutionism of Henry Stacy Marks, Caitlin Silberman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
3. Placing Trust: Collaborators, Competitors, and the Business of Print Publishing in the 1770s, Amy Torbert, University of Delaware

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Publications Committee
The Art Bulletin’s Digital Future?
Thursday, 13 February, 5:30–7:00, Hilton Chicago, 2nd Floor, Grand Ballroom
Chair: David J. Getsy, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1. Thelma K. Thomas, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
2. Alexi Taylor, Scalar and New York University
3. Tara McPherson, Scalar and University of Southern California
4. Katherine Behar, Baruch College, City University of New York
5. Kirk T. Ambrose, University of Colorado at Boulder

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National Endowment for the Arts
Friday, 14 February 2014, 7:30–9:00am, Hilton Chicago, Lobby Level, Continental A
Chair: Wendy Clark, Acting Director of Museums, Visual Arts, and Indemnity

Early risers’ (and Valentine’s Day) session to learn about funding of exhibitions, public art, conservation, artist residencies, commissions, and collection care available to non-profit organizations, universities, and units of local and state governments.

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The Early Modern Child in Art and History
Friday, 14 February, 9:30–12:00, Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor, Astoria Room
Chair: Matthew Knox Averett, Creighton University

1. The (Holy) Innocents: Visualizing the Foundling in Fifteenth-Century Florence, Diana Bullen Presciutti, College of Wooster
2. Princely Portraits of Adolescence in the Court of Philip II in the Mid-Sixteenth Century, Lisa W. Tom, Brown University
3. Little Idols and the Infant Jesus: The Sacred Rituals of a Royal Spanish Nun, Tanya J. Tiffany, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
4. Dressing the Part: Picturing and Promoting the Early Modern Child, Parme P. Giuntini, Otis College of Art and Design
5. New Parents of the New Child in Eighteenth-Century French Art, Suzanne Conway, Chestnut Hill College

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Digital Publishing in Art History: The Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative
Friday, 14 February, 9:30–12:00, Hilton Chicago, Lobby Level, Continental C
Chair: Anne Collins Goodyear, Bowdoin College Museum of Art

1. Overview of the Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative, Anne L. Helmreich, Getty Foundation
2. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, Judith Metro and Jennifer Henel, National Gallery of Art
3. Monet and Renoir at the Art Institute: Paintings and Drawings, Gloria L. Groom, The Art Institute of Chicago
4. The Robert Rauschenberg Research Project, Sarah Roberts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Discussant: Paul B. Jaskot, DePaul University

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Aspects of Vitruvius’s Reception: New Research in Architectural Practice and Theory in the Early Modern World
Friday, 14 February 2014, 2:30–5:00, Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor, Astoria Room
Chairs: Victor Luis Deupi, New York Institute of Technology; Richard John, University of Miami

1. Translating Vitruvius in the Quattrocento: Ancient Theory or Contemporary Practice?, Angeliki Pollali, DEREE-The American College of Greece
2. Sundials and Water Organs: The Vitruvian Tradition in Italian Gardens, Natsumi Nonaka, University of Texas at Austin
3. Vitruvius and Pious Learning, Susan Klaiber, Winterthur, Switzerland
4. Vitruvius in Early Modern England: The Case of the Royal Society, 1660–1695, Matthew Walker, University of Oxford
5. James Gibbs’s Rules for Drawing (1732) and Vitruvius’s Method for the Ionic Order, Richard John, University of Miami

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The Art of Display: Context and Meaning, 1700–1850
Friday, 14 February, 2:30–5:00, Hilton Chicago, 8th Floor, Lake Huron
Chair: Christina R. Ferando, Harvard University

1. A Roman Venus in the Tsar’s Baroque Garden: Orthodox Blasphemy, Soviet Scandal, Margaret Samu, Yeshiva University Stern College
2. Duobaoge: Artful Displays in Eighteenth-Century Qing China, Eleanor Hyun, University of Chicago
3. Unconventional Displays and Unacquainted Spectators: The Impact of John Martin’s Eccentric Exhibitionary Tactics, Chris Coltrin, Shepherd University
4. The Empire at Home: Displaying the Locker Collection at Greenwich Hospital, 1830–1843, Catherine Roach, Viriginia Commonwealth University
5. Corot in Situ: The Studio as Exhibition Space, Heather A. McPherson, University of Alabama at Birmingham

From the Royal Museums Greenwich:

Culture Clash? Contemporary Arts in Historic Contexts
Royal Museums Greenwich, London, 14 February 2014

Yinka Shonibare MBE, Cheeky Little Astronomer (2013) in Flamsteed House. Commissioned by National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.

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In recent years it has become increasingly popular for museums and historic buildings to invite living artists to respond to their buildings or collections by curating, creating or performing on site. What has been the impact of this popular collaborative trend for artists, museums and their audiences? To coincide with the latest in a series of contemporary interventions, Yinka Shonibare MBE at Greenwich, Royal Museums Greenwich is organising a one-day conference to explore the role of contemporary art outside the white cube. Conference fee: £50 (concessionary rate £40). Booking form is available here or call 020 8312 6716.

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P R O G R A M M E

Yinka Shonibare MBE, Nelson’s Jacket, 2011.

9.00  Registration and refreshments

9.50  Melanie Vandenbrouck (Royal Museums Greenwich), Welcome and introduction

10.00  Session 1: Approaches and challenges
• Helen Hillyard (National Gallery), New Visions of the Sea: Assessing the legacy of contemporary art at the National Maritime Museum, 1999–2009
• Julien Parsons and Martin Thomas (Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter), The challenges faced by local authority-managed museums and settings
• Antoinette Maget Dominicé (University of Lucerne), Contemporary arts, historic contexts and the law

11.30  Coffee and tea

12.00  Session 2: Interpreting and animating sites and collections
• Bergit Arends (independent curator), Talking Back: Artists working with natural history collections from Australia, China and India
• Nick Cass (University of Leeds), The Haunting of a Shrine: Contemporary art at the Brontë Parsonage Museum

13.00  Lunch, with an opportunity to visit Flamsteed House at the Royal Observatory to see the Cheeky Little Astronomer by Yinka Shonibare MBE

14.30  Curator-led tour of Yinka Shonibare MBE at Greenwich in the Queen’s House

15.30  Coffee and tea

16.00  Session 3: Collaboration, dialogue and (mis)understanding
• Melissa Hamnett (V&A), Disturbing the comfortable
• Helen Shaw (University of York), How do we see each other? Dialogue and exchange in Native American curatorial methodologies
• Jonathan Carson (Carson & Miller) and Rosie Miller (University of Salford), Playing with the past

17.30  Drinks reception

From the symposium programme:

Hanover and England: A Garden and Personal Union?
German and British Garden Culture between 1714 and Today
Leibniz Universität Hannover, 26–27 February 2014

Registration due by 14 February 2014

When George I, Elector of Hanover, was enthroned in England in 1714 he established a personal union that existed until 1837 leaving many cultural and political marks. Its 300th anniversary will be celebrated in the conference Hanover and England: a garden and personal union? German and British garden culture between 1714 and today. The symposium will not only focus on questions of garden history but also consider furthermore the contemporary background on which ideas on art, agriculture, commerce, technology, literature and politics were
exchanged.

In view of the encyclopaedic interest of the late 18th century, it is self-evident to invite several academic disciplines to describe and to discuss the cultural transfer between Great Britain and Hanover. The transfer of horticultural and artistic ideas very often flourished in the 19th century at different places. This gives reason to focus the conference on two key parts: the Hanoverian-British exchange between 1714 and 1837 (the period of the actual personal union) and the Anglo-German relations that open perspectives even into the present age.

In cooperation with the Technische Universität Dresden and funded by Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur. The symposium will be conducted in English. Registration information is available online.

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Hanover and England: The Period of the Personal Union, 1714–1837

Welcome and Introduction
10.00  Klaus Hulek (Vice-President for Research, Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Simon McDonald (British Ambassador to Germany)
Stefan Schostok (Lord Mayor of Hannover)
Annette Schwandner (Ministry of Science and Culture, Lower Saxony)
10.30 Marcus Köhler (Hochschule Neubrandenburg, TU Dresden) and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

I. Historical Introduction
11.00  Arndt Reitemeier (Universität Göttingen, Institut für Historische Landesforschung), “The personal union”

II. Arts, Architecture and Environment
11.30  Wolf Burchard (Royal Collection), “Art in Britain during the reign of George I and George II”
12.00  David Jacques (Stoke-on-Trent), “The Early Georgians and the controversy of garden styles”

III.  Agricultural Economy and Landscape Design
12.30  Hansjörg Küster (Leibniz Universität Hannover), “Reform in the time of the personal union”

13.00  Discussion

13.15  Lunch break

IV. Botany
14.15  Sophie von Schwerin (Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil), “For pleasure and science: On the connection between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Berggarten in Herrenhausen”
14.45  Clarissa Campbell Orr (Anglia Ruskin University), “Mary Delany and Queen Charlotte: The botanizing court”
15.15  John R. Edmondson (Hon. Research Associate, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), “Foreign herbs surpriz’d in English ground: The life and work of Georg D. Ehret (1708–1770)”

V. Water Art / Technology
15.45  Bernd Adam (Hannover), “The Great Fountain and English innovations in Hanover”

16.15  Discussion

16.30  Coffee Break

VI. Iconography and Garden Art
17.00  Michael Niedermeier (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften), “The German Kinship: Politics and Dynasty in the early ‘English’ garden”
17.30  Carsten Neumann (Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald), “The house Bothmer in Klütz: An English-Dutch manor in Mecklenburg”

18.00  Discussion

18.15  Break

19.00  Evening Lecture, in cooperation with the German Association for Garden Art and Landscape Culture (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gartenkunst und Landschaftskultur, DGGL)
James Hitchmough (University of Sheffield), “Landscape Architecture in early C21st Britain: Issues and challenges”

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Germany and England: Reflexion and Reception from 1837 until Today

I. Herrenhausen, Kensington and Hampton Court: History and Maintenance
9.00  Guided tour through the Herrenhausen Gardens by Ronald Clark and staff members

11.15  Coffee Break

II. Garden Preservation
11.45  Todd Longstaffe-Gowan (tlg-Landscape London), “The unaffected Englishness of Queen Caroline’s gardens at Kensington Palace”
12.15  Jonathan Finch (University of York), “Hunting and the Georgian Landscape: Exercising privilege”

III. Reception of Gardens
12.45  Gert Gröning (Universität der Künste Berlin), “Bio-aesthetic planning: A conjecture about an imperialistic garden cultural relation between the German Empire and independant India via the English Empire”

13.15  Discussion

13.30  Lunch Break

IV. Literature and Garden Travel
14.30  Sigrid Thielking (Leibniz Universität Hannover), “On the construct ‘English Gardens’: Perception and myth within garden literature”
15.00  Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Leibniz Universität Hannover), “Travels and knowledge: German apprenticeship in English gardens and the example of Hans Jancke”

V. Agricultural Economy und Landscape Design
15.30  Hubertus Fischer (Leibniz Universität Hannover), “House Söder as ornamental farm”

16.00  Discussion

VI. Closing Remarks
Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Marcus Köhler (Hochschule Neubrandenburg, TU Dresden)

From the conference website:

The Production of Ornament: Reassessing the Decorative in History and Practice
University of Leeds, 21-22 March 2014

Registration due by 28 February 2014

The descriptive terms ‘decorative’ and ‘ornamental’ are in many ways synonymous with superfluity and excess; they refer to things or modalities that are ‘supplementary’ or ‘marginal’ by their very nature. In the West, such qualitative associations in made objects intersect with long-standing and inter-related philosophical oppositions between ‘form’ and ‘matter’, ‘body’ and ‘surface’, the ‘proper’ and the ‘cosmetic’. Accordingly, this has weighed both on determinations of value in artistic media, and on the inflexions of related histories – particularly histories of ‘non-Western’ art, design and culture, where a wide range of decorative traditions are deemed unworthy of critical attention.

Yet such frameworks are no more historically stable than they are culturally universal. To take one very clear and ‘central’ counter-example, decoration in some strands of Renaissance architectural theory (Filarete, Alberti) emerged as a rigorous codification of meaning, as an essentially functional (political) language. In many ways the history of ornament may itself be seen as a process of marginalisation of such ways of thinking, and the separation of ornament from any form of social practice.

This two-day conference seeks to explore the various ways in which ornament might be regarded as itself productive of its objects and sites. How might the technologies, techniques, and materials of ornament be related to the conception and transformation of modes of object-making? How might ornament be understood to inform its objects, disrupting the spatial categories of ‘surface’ and ‘structure’, and the temporal models in which ornament ‘follows’ making? What are the relations between ornament and representation, and what is at stake in the conventional oppositions between these categories? What are the roles of ornament in larger dynamics of copying, hybridisation and appropriation between things? In what ways have practices and thinking on ornament staged cultural encounters, and engendered larger epistemological and social models?

Tickets cost £15/£8, and include lunches and refreshments. To book a place email Dr Richard Checketts and Dr Lara Eggleton at production.of.ornament@gmail.com by Friday the 28th of February.

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10:00  Coffee/tea and registration

10:45  Richard Checketts and Lara Eggleton (University of Leeds), Welcome and Introduction

11:00  Emma Sidgwick (University of Leuven), ‘Late Antique Strigillation: The Abstract Iconography and Embodied Mediation of a Holy Productive Power’

11:40  Catherine E. Karkov (University of Leeds), ‘Entanglement, Enchantment, Stone: The Materiality of Ornament in Tenth-Century Leeds’

12:20  Carol Bier (Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley / The Textile Museum, Washington D.C.), ‘Is Ornament Ornamental? Geometry Made Manifest in Islamic Architecture’

13:00  Lunch

14:30  Soersha Dyon (Independent Scholar), ‘Unravelling the Arabesque’

15:10  Jason Nguyen (Harvard University/ Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris), ‘Communauté ornament: Law and Labour in Late Seventeenth-Century Paris’

15:50  Coffee and tea

16:30  Keynote 1, Alina Payne (Harvard University)

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10:00  Keynote 2, Susanne Kuechler (UCL), ‘The Quest for Affinity: The Ornament in Perspective’

11:15  Coffee and tea

11:30  Todd P. Olson (University of California, Berkeley), ‘Sticky Figures: Reconciling Pattern and Mimesis in Early Modern Prints’

12:10  Elizabeth Athens (Yale University), ‘Monstrosity, Ornament, Ecology: William Hogarth’s Natural Knowledge’

12:50  Frances S. Connelly (University of Missouri-Kansas City), ‘Rogue Ornament or Poetic Monster: Giambattista Vico and the Ornamental Grotesque’

1:30  Lunch

2:30  Sabrina Rahman (Northumbria University), ‘The Politics of Ornament: Historiographical and Ethnological Practices of the Austrian Werkbund’

3:10  Mark Crinson (University of Manchester), ‘The Ornamented Ceiling in New Brutalism’

3:50  Closing remarks and discussion

5:00  Drinks reception

From ArtHist:

Piranesi und die Vermittlung antiquarischen Wissens im 18. Jahrhundert
Universität zu Köln, 23–24 January 2014

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Temple of Coughing
(Entrance Hall of an Antique Villa), ca. 1763, etching
(Universität zu Köln, Universitätsarchiv, Inv. 700/14)

Wissen und Vorstellungen über die Antike sind in der Frühen Neuzeit in vielen Medien und Formaten vermittelt worden. Dazu zählen nicht nur die gelehrten antiquarischen Werke, sondern ebenso Gemälde und Opern mit antiken Themen, künstlich angelegte Ruinen und Landschaften oder systematisch angelegte Sammlungen von Kopien oder Originalen der bildenden Kunst.

Anlässlich der Ausstellung Piranesis Antike – Befund und Polemik im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum wird sich der Workshop mit der Frage beschäftigen, wie antiquarisches Wissen in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jhs. in den verschiedenen Gattungen und Medien über den Kreis der Gelehrten hinaus aufgenommen und vermittelt worden ist, z.B. durch die Aufnahme mythologischer oder historischer Themen. Dabei soll ein möglichst breites Spektrum an Gattungen vorgestellt werden. Zu untersuchen ist etwa, woher das Wissen über die Antike gewonnen wurde, für welches Publikum es gedacht war und wie es nach den Erfordernissen der jeweiligen Gattung umgeformt wurde.

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Abendvortrag
18.00 Valentin Kockel (Augsburg), Ansicht – Plan – Modell. Die Visualisierung antiker Ruinen im 18. Jahrhundert

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9.00 Dietrich Boschung (Köln) Begrüßung

9.15 Anne-Marie Leander Touati (Stockholm/Lund), Between vision and business. Choice pieces from the Piranesi collection in Stockholm

10.00 Dagmar Grassinger (Köln), Roms Größe wiederherstellen – Piranesis »Vasi antichi«

10.45 Kaffeepause

11.15 Alain Schnapp (Paris), Piranesi in der Zeit der lebenden Ruinen: Historische und künstlerische Ruinen

12.00 Mittagspause

13.30 Daniel Graepler (Göttingen), Zwischen antiquarischer Gelehrsamkeit und künstlerischer Praxis: Philipp Daniel Lipperts Daktyliothek

14.15 Jörn Lang (Leipzig), Wie Wissen Schönes schafft: Rezeption und Umformung antiquarischer Gelehrsamkeit in klassizistischem Wanddekor

15.00 Kaffeepause

15.30 Xenia Ressos (Innsbruck), Die Antike in Scherben – Antikenrezeption im Medium Porzellan

16.15 Abschlussdiskussion

Ort: Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, Universität zu Köln, Weyertal 59 (Rückgebäude: 3. Stock), 50937 Köln

Konzept: Dietrich Boschung
Kontakt: Semra Mägele, smaegele@uni-koeln.de

From Birkbeck:

Aesthetic Enlightenments: Cultures of Natural Knowledge
Huntington Library, San Marino, 10–11 January 2014

Registration due by 10 January 2014

This two-day conference will examine the relationship between the aesthetic production and social circulation of knowledge about the natural world in the eighteenth century. It aims to connect literary, visual and discursive forms of analysis with approaches current within social history, in order to interrogate the relationship between social participation in science and the aesthetic and cultural forms of its making.

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8:30 Registration and coffee

9:30 Welcome: Steve Hindle (The Huntington)
Remarks: Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of St. Andrews) and Emily Senior (Birkbeck, University of London)

10:00  Session 1: Knowledge Work and Circulation
Moderator: Margaret Jacob (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Londa Schiebinger (Stanford University), “The Atlantic World Medical Complex”
• Noah Heringman (University of Missouri), “Knowledge Work, or, Sciences from the Middle”

12:00 Lunch

1:00  Session 2: Hybrid Forms of Knowledge
Moderator: Lyle Massey (University of California, Irvine)
• Daniela Bleichmar (University of Southern California), “Chronicles without Words: The Study of Mexican Codices and Amerindian Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century”
• Jill H. Casid (University of Wisconsin, Madison), “Satyrosity”

3:00 Break

3:15  Session 3: Inscription, Translation, and Erasure
Moderator: Sarah Kareem (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Alan Bewell (University of Toronto), “Natures Lost in Translation”
• Matthew Daniel Eddy (Durham University), “How to Keep a Notebook: Inscription as a Visual Knowledge-Making Process for Early Modern Students”

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9:00 Registration and coffee

9:30  Session 4: The Epistemology of Feeling
Moderator: Anne Mellor (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Jonathan Lamb (Vanderbilt University), “Blushing and Tattooing”
• Alan Richardson (Boston College), “Empathy for the Devil: From Mirror Neurons to Sympathy Theory to Shelley’s The Cenci”

11:30 Lunch

12:30  Session 5: Scholars and Communities
Moderator: Alexander Wragge-Morley (University of Oxford)
• Deirdre Coleman (University of Melbourne), “Henry Smeathman and the Cultures of Natural Knowledge”
• Dena Goodman (University of Michigan), “Collective Identity, Natural History, and Public Responsibility: Augustin-François Silvestre’s Eulogies for the French Society of Agriculture, 1801–1841”

2:30 Break

2:45  Session 6: Public Science, Education, and Professionalization
Moderator: Devin Griffiths (University of Southern California)
• Dahlia Porter (University of North Texas), “Anatomical Inventories, Medical Aesthetics: Body Parts and the Life of Things”
• Jan Golinski (University of New Hampshire), “Sublime Astronomy at the End of the Enlightenment: Adam Walker and the Eidouranion”

For registration, please email: researchconference@huntington.org

From the programme:

Revoir Oudry: Pratiques, Discours et Ornement
Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, 18 January 2014

Cette journée d’études propose de jeter un regard oblique sur Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755) à travers ses conférences, ses rapports à l’ornement et la circulation de ses motifs, touchant ainsi aux questions de répétition et d’autorité. De ses conférences à l’Académie à son rôle de directeur de la manufacture de Beauvais et d’inspecteur de celle des Gobelins, des cours de dessins qu’il donne au prince Frédéric à sa réapparition dans l’art contemporain, l’œuvre et la fortune critique d’Oudry permettent de réfléchir aux rapports entre peinture et ornement dans l’art français du xviiie siècle. Plus largement, c’est la présence lacunaire d’Oudry dans les discours de l’histoire de l’art qui sera interrogée en ce qu’elle peut révéler des méthodes et de l’état de la discipline. En effet, en dépit d’un œuvre foisonnant et d’une carrière académique prestigieuse, Oudry n’a pas reçu l’attention muséographique et critique continue dont bénéficient Watteau, Boucher, Chardin ou Fragonard, et n’a pas bénéficié du renouveau des études sur l’art rococo dans le monde anglo-saxon. Les chercheurs européens et nord-américains invités proposent donc, au-delà des canons de sa peinture animalière, de revoir Oudry dans les marges de la discipline.

Journée d’études organisée : Michaël Decrossas (INHA), Catherine Girard (Harvard University/INHA) et David Pullins (Harvard University/CASVA)
Contacts : michael.decrossas@inha.fr | catherine.girard@yahoo.com | pullins@fas.harvard.edu

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Quizzical Bird, xviiie siècle, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum

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8.30 Accueil

9.00 Ouverture : Michaël Decrossas (INHA), Catherine Girard (Harvard University/INHA) et David Pullins (Harvard University/CASVA)

9.20 Introduction : Hal Opperman (University of Washington School of Art)

Session I – Discours
9.50 Présidence de séance et intervention liminaire : Christian Michel (Université de Lausanne)
10.10 René Démoris (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3), Situer Oudry dans la réflexion sur la peinture
10.40 Aaron Wile (Harvard University/Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art, Paris), Oudry, ou la couleur à l’œuvre
11.10 Discussion

11.20 Pause

Session II – Ornement
11.30 Présidence de séance et intervention liminaire : Katie Scott (Courtauld Institute of Art, Londres)
11.50 Michaël Decrossas, Pourquoi classer les planches d’Oudry dans les gravures d’ornements?
12.20 Valentine Toutain-Quittelier (Université Paris Sorbonne/Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art, Paris), Oudry et l’imaginaire vénitien : étude sur un succès de l’ornement sous la Régence
12.50 Discussion

13.00 Déjeuner

Session III – Arts décoratifs
14.40 Présidence de séance et intervention liminaire : Vincent Droguet (Château de Fontainebleau)
15.00 Christophe Huchet de Quénetain (Université Paris Sorbonne), L’influence de Jean-Baptiste Oudry, « peintre de chasses », sur les Arts décoratifs français du xviiie siècle
15.30 David Pullins, Drawing into and out of media in Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s oeuvre
16.00 Discussion

16.10 Pause

Session IV – Répétition et circulation
16.20 Présidence de séance et intervention liminaire : Ewa Lajer-Burcharth (Harvard University)
16.40 Claudia Schönfeld (St Georgen, Bade-Wurtemberg, collection Grässlin), Pratiques d’enseignement et réception d’Oudry à la cour de Mecklembourg
17.10 Catherine Girard, Atrophies masculines. Répétitions de la commande royale des « bois bizarres », de Louis XV à nos jours
17.40 Discussion et conclusion

From the conference website:

Persistent Spaces: Politics, Aesthetics and Topography
in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century City
Université Paris Diderot, 12–13 December 2013

Keynote speakers: Lynda Nead (Birkbeck College) and Stéphane Van Damme (Sciences Po Paris)

The aim of this two-day postgraduate conference is to bring together young researchers to explore the city and its ideologies from a fully interdisciplinary perspective. We would like to combine approaches from the fields of literature and the arts, sociology, philosophy, law, science and engineering in order to create a dialogue between disciplines and methodologies. This conference would also establish a dialogue between the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. We will seek to highlight the individual specificities of these two periods, but also to understand the echoes, continuities and breaks between them. From the Enlightenment to the late nineteenth century and before urbanism was fully established as a discipline, the city was constantly being configured and reconfigured by the joint influences of architects, civil engineers, political organizations, associations and the informal “practices” of inhabitants. Writers and artists also played a major part in this process, both picking up on these developments and changing them through the aesthetics they deployed. We would like to study this topography of struggle. The conference will shed light on the city as a site of conflicting and interpenetrating layers, changing yet also persisting through time and space, and continually shaped by tensions between authority and resistance.

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9.00  Registration, welcome, plenary address by Sara Thornton, Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Cultural Studies, Université Paris Diderot

9.30  Panel 1: Urbanism and urban planning
Chair: Allan Potofsky, Professor of Eighteenth-Century History, Université Paris Diderot
• Simona Gîrleanu (Université de Marne-la-Vallée), ‘Capitals of the Enlightenment: London and Paris Improved’
• Yvonne Rickert (Philipps University of Marburg), ‘The Parisian “Place Louis XV”: The Effect of a Literary Clash on the Architectural Design’

10.30  Tea

11.00  Panel 2: Urban Experiences of poverty and pauperism
Chair: Ariane Fennetaux, Assistant Professor of Eighteenth-Century Cultural Studies, Université Paris Diderot
• Oliver Betts (University of York), ‘Disorderly Spaces: Homes in the Slums of London and Paris’
• George Currie (Queen Mary University of London), ‘Alexis de Tocqueville, Thomas Carlyle and Urban Pauperism’

12.00  Lunch

14.00  Panel 3: Instability of space, instability of self
Chair: Estelle Murail, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Cultural Studies, Université Paris-Diderot
• Alexandra Logvinova (European Humanities University), ‘The Structure of Urban Daily Life in the Nineteenth Century as the Basis of Subject’s Anxiety’
• Adrian Versteegh (New York University), ‘“Cycle in Epicycle, Orb in Orb”: Navigating the Thresholds, Passages and Nested Interiors of Nineteenth-Century Urban Literature’

15.00  Tea

15.30  Panel 4: Fragmented spaces and writing
Chair: Lynda Nead, Pevsner Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London
• Alison Annunziata (University of Southern California), ‘Urban De-Enlightenment: A Russian’s Dark Journey through Paris and London at the Start of the French Revolution’
• Ushashi Dasgupta (St John’s College, University of Oxford), ‘“Is this an Hotel? Are There Thieves in the House?”: Dickens, Collins, and the Spatial Contexts of Crime’
• Robert Yeates (University of Exeter), ‘The Destruction of the City in Early Science Fiction’

17.00  Keynote address
Stéphane Van Damme, Professor of History of Science, European University Institute in Florence, ‘Archaeology of Modernity: Making Metropolitan Past Tangible and Persistent: Paris, London, New York’

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9.30  Ariane Fennetaux (Université Paris Diderot), ‘Materializing History: Plebeian Women’s Pockets in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century London’

10.30  Tea

11.00  Panel 5: Disorientating the Orient
Chair: Colin Jones, Professor of Eighteenth-Century French History, Queen Mary College, London, Fellow of the British Academy
• Michael Talbot (University of St Andrews), ‘Shifting Centres: The Political and Topographical Transformations of Ottoman Haifa, 1700–1900’
• Natalia Starostina (Emory University), ‘Paris Oriental, Carnal Pleasures and the Spaces of Desires in Defining the Mental Topography of Paris from Montesquieu to Maupassant and to Paul Morand’

12.00  Lunch

14.00  Panel 6: The city in science
Chair: Stéphane Van Damme, Professor of History of Science, European University Institute in Florence
• Lavinia Maddluno (University of Cambridge), ‘Spaces of Nature and Realms of Civilisation: Pavia between Politics, Scientific Practices and Natural Order in the Late Eighteenth Century’
• Mathieu Fernandez (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers), ‘Mapping the Third Dimension: Observing, Representing and Transforming Paris, 1750–1850’

15.00  Tea

15.30  Keynote address
Lynda Nead, Pevsner Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London, ‘The Tiger in the Smoke: The Fog of Modernity in Post-war London’

From the conference programme:

Roma 1771–1819: I Giornali di Vincenzo Pacetti
Accademia Nazionale di San Luca – Università Sapienza, Rome, 28–30 November 2013

Il Convegno intende costituire un momento di riflessione critica a seguito della pubblicazione, avvenuta nel 2011, del volume Roma 1771–1819: I Giornali di Vincenzo Vincenzo Pacetti (1746–1820), che contiene la prima trascrizione integrale dei due diari dello scultore romano. A partire dalla testimonianza oggettiva contenuta negli appunti dell’artista, influente membro dell’Accademia di San Luca, restauratore, esperto e commerciante di antichità e dipinti nella Roma cosmopolita della seconda metà del XVIII secolo, l’incontro intende mettere a confronto specialisti di diverse discipline per indagare gli aspetti storico-culturali sollecitati dalla lettura dei Giornali.

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I. Pacetti e l’Ambiente Artistico Contemporaneo

9.00  Saluti di apertura

9.30  Alvar Gonzales Palacios, Introduzione

10.00  Francesco Leone, Vincenzo Pacetti scultore d’invenzione

10.20  Angela Cipriani, Vincenzo Pacetti e l’Accademia di San Luca

10.40  Chiara Piva, “Una comunicazione di interessi e benefici
reciproci”. L’atelier di Vincenzo Pacetti e i suoi collaboratori

11.00  Nancy Hirschland Ramage, Pacetti at the Getty

11.20  Coffee break (more…)