Conference | The Louvre Before The Louvre: Artisans, Artists, Academies
From the conference website:
The Louvre Before The Louvre: Artisans, Artists, Academies
Wallace Collection, London, 5 July 2013
Organized by Mia Jackson and Hannah Williams
Antoine Coysevox, Charles Le Brun, terracotta, 1676 (The Wallace Collection)
Now one of the world’s most famous museums, the Louvre was once a vast artistic and cultural centre of a different kind. This one-day conference addresses the fascinating but little-known period of the Louvre’s history throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, exploring the role this space, its objects, and its inhabitants played in the histories of art production and artistic sociability in early modern Paris.
Eminent and emerging scholars including two guest speakers from the Musée du Louvre will together provide an intimate understanding of the artistic and intellectual neighbourhood of the Louvre and its effect on art and design in the period. Papers on the day will investigate the collective spaces and sociable practices of the Louvre (from the royal academies to artists’ studios), the intersections between personal and professional spaces for the artists and artisans who both lived and worked in the Louvre, and the wider significance of the Louvre in artistic social networks both locally and internationally.
Taking place in the Wallace Collection, which houses one of the United Kingdom’s finest collections of art from this period, this conference offers attendees the opportunity to experience the results of these artistic collaborations.
Generously supported by the Wallace Collection and the Faculty of History of the University of Oxford.
To book: www.louvrebeforelouvre.eventbrite.co.uk
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P R O G R A M M E
Welcome by Christoph Vogtherr (Wallace Collection)
Introduction by Mia Jackson (QMUL) and Hannah Williams (University of Oxford)
I. Reception Pieces at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture: New Research
Geneviève Bresc-Bautier (Musée du Louvre) Integration of Works into the Collections of the Académie during the Ancien Régime
Guilhem Scherf (Musée du Louvre) Reception and Diffusion of the Morceaux de Réception during the Ancien Régime
II. Collective Spaces and Sociable Practices
Drew Armstrong (University of Pittsburgh) Life and Loss in the Académie Royale d’Architecture
Esther Bell (Cincinnati Art Museum) Coypel the Curator: Studio as Sociable Space
Pierre-Édouard Latouche (Université de Québec à Montréal) Des Recueils des Maisons Royales en Petit (1745) à L’Architecture Française (1756) de Blondel: Le remploi d’un Plan de la Cour Carré
Anne Higonnet (Barnard College, Columbia University) Studios, Sociability, and Unexpected Consequences in the Old Louvre
III. Living and Working in the Louvre
Susan Wager (Columbia University) Un-occupying the Louvre: The Royal Gem-Engraver Jacques Guay
David Maskill (Victoria University of Wellington) Louis Tocqué (1696-1772): A Portrait Painter at the Louvre
Katie Scott (Courtauld Institute of Art) Parade’s End: On Charles Coypel’s Bed
IV. Neighbourhoods and Networks
Dena Goodman (University of Michigan) 4 rue des Orties: the Louvre of the Silvestres, 1675-1805
Bärbel Küster (State Academy for Art and Design, Stuttgart) Britons in the Louvre in the 18th Century
Laura Auricchio (The New School) Beyond the Louvre: Re-mapping the Paris Art World in the Age of Louis XVI
Symposium | Strategies of the Interior
From the flyer for the upcoming symposium related to the University of Bern’s Interior project:
Strategies of the Interior: Anachronisms, Discontinuities, Narratives
University of Bern and Villa Mettlen, Muri bei Bern, 16-17 May 2013
Registration due by 26 April 2013
Concept and coordination: Christine Göttler, Peter Schneemann, and Tabea Schindler
This workshop is part of the activities of the Bern based SNSF Sinergia project The Interior: Art, Space, and Performance (Early Modern to Postmodern). It aims to provide a forum for exploring strategies and notions of the interior in diverse cultural contexts. Among the topics of focus are interiors as sites or signifiers of social, cultural, and religious interactions; narratives generated and stimulated by inhabited interiors; and the construction of interior spaces that refer to, represent and recreate different origins, experiences, and identities. Papers address the permeability and ambiguity of interior spaces, experienced as oscillating between private and public as well as between interior and exterior worlds. Attendance is free of charge but due to limited seats, registration is required until 26 April 2013. Contact: Michèle Seehafer, Project Assistant, michele.seehafer@ikg.unibe.ch. For more information please visit our project website.
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University of Bern
6:15 Keynote Lecture: Reindert Falkenburg (New York University Abu Dhabi), “Hieronymus Bosch, Diableries, and ‘Faulty Vision’” (keynote lecture)
F R I D A Y , 1 7 M A Y 20 1 3
Villa Mettlen
9:00 Registration
9:15 Welcome and Introduction: Christine Göttler and Peter J. Schneemann
Anachronisms: Spaces as Sites or Signifiers
Chaired by Tabea Schindler
9:30 Nick Kaye (University of Exeter), “The Outside [Is] The Inside”
10:30 Pascal Griener (University of Neuchâtel), “Raptures in Ruptures: The Representation of Periods through Rooms in the Crystal Palace at Sydenham (London), 1854–1870”
11:30 Coffee and Tea
Narratives: The Construction and Representation of Space
Chaired by Peter J. Schneemann
11:45 Beate Söntgen (Leuphana University of Lüneburg), “Chardin: Interiority – Interaction – Communication”
12:45 Lunch
14:00 Michael Lüthy (Freie Universität Berlin), “The Room at the End of History: Marcel Duchamp in the Philadelphia Museum of Art”
15:00 Coffee and Tea
Discontinuities: The Animation and Stimulation of Space
Chaired by Christine Göttler
15:15 Caroline Van Eck (Leiden University), “‘To roll back the current of time to show glorious visions of the past’: The Period Rooms of William Beckford and Sir John Soane”
16:15 Ursula Frohne (University of Cologne), “Shared Spaces: Collective Experience and Receptive Modes inside Cinematographic Environments”
17:15 Final Discussion
Symposium | Georges Hoentschel in Context
Although I noted back in February this BGC exhibition, Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts, I didn’t include any programming details. My apologies for the short notice; it’s an exciting slate of talks! -CH
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From the BGC:
Symposium: Georges Hoentschel in Context
Bard Graduate Center, New York, 18-19 April 2013
Panel from the shutters formerly in the Chapel at Versailles, carved by Jules Degoullons and associates after designs by Robert de Cotte, ca. 1710
Carved oak, originally painted and gilded
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906 (07.225.145b)
Organized in conjunction with the exhibition Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, on view at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery from April 4 through August 11, 2013, this international symposium brings together scholars and conservators to examine the Hoentschel collection in the context of the history of collecting in France and America. In April 1906, the celebrated Parisian decorator Georges Hoentschel (1855-1915) sold his French eighteenth-century panelling, seat furniture, painted overdoors, assorted objects, and medieval art to the powerful New York financier and collector J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913). Morgan, then president of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, presented the eighteenth-century objects immediately to the Museum but initially only offered to lend the earlier artworks. These were later donated by his son Jack Morgan in 1916. Hoentschel was also involved in the contemporary art world of his day, designing an Art Nouveau pavilion for the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1900, as well as intriguing stoneware vessels. The Hoentschel material constitutes one of the most significant collections from the early period of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center presents an unprecedented opportunity to explore its important role in disseminating the taste for eighteenth-century and Medieval French art in the United States.
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Flaminia Gennari-Santori (Consulting Curator, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, Florida) — ’There Was Money in the Air’: John Pierpont Morgan and the European Collecting Tradition
Light refreshments will be served at 5:45 pm. The presentation will begin at 6:00 pm. RSVP is required. To reserve you place at Thursday’s evening session, please click on the registration link at the bottom of this page or contact academicevents@bgc.bard.edu. Please note that a separate RSVP is required for the all-day session on Friday, April 19, 2013. Also note that our Lecture Hall can only accommodate a limited number of people, so please come early if you would like to have a seat in the main room. Registrants who arrive late will be seated in an overflow viewing area.
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9:30-5:00
Thomas Stammers (Lecturer in the Cultural History of Modern Europe, University of Durham), “Reinventing the Old Regime: Collectors and Scavengers in Nineteenth-Century Paris”
Anne Forray-Carlier (Chief Curator, Department of 17th and 18th Centuries, Musée des Arts Décoratifs), “Émile Peyre: The Unknown Collector”
Evelyne Possémé (Chief Curator, Department of Art Nouveau, Art Déco, and Jewelry, Musée des Arts Décoratifs), “Hoentschel’s Pavilion for the Exposition Universelle of 1900, Then and Now”
Charlotte Vignon (Associate Curator of Decorative Arts, The Frick Collection), “French Style in Early Twentieth-Century America: The Roles of Art Dealers and Interior Decorators”
Vincent Bouvet (Head of the Publication Department, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris), “Hoentschel and his Contemporaries: Parisian Interior Design Firms (1880-1920)”
Christina Hagelskamp, Mecka Baumeister, Nancy Britton, Beth Edelstein, and Pascale Patris (Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art), “The Conservator’s Perspective: Case Studies from the Furniture and Furnishings in the Hoentschel Collection”
Moderator of Morning Session, Deborah L. Krohn (Bard Graduate Center)
Moderator of Afternoon Session, Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide (Curator of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Friday’s Afternoon Session will end with a panel discussion featuring the speakers and moderators.
RSVP is required. To reserve you place at Friday’s all-day session, please click on the registration link or contact academicevents@bgc.bard.edu. Please note that our Lecture Hall can only accommodate a limited number of people, so please come early if you would like to have a seat in the main room. Registrants who arrive late will be seated in an overflow viewing area.
Conference | Lust und Last der Antike: Antikenrezeption in der Skulptur
Lust und Last der Antike: Antikenrezeption in der Skulptur von Bernini bis Canova
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rome, 3-4 May 2013
Programm und Organisation: Carina Bauriegel und Anna Sophie Rath
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22
In der Frührenaissance wird das Interesse der Bildhauer für die römischen Antiken neu geweckt. Durch Nachzeichnungen und Stichwerke wird das antike Erbe sukzessive erschlossen und konstituiert einen Kanon, der die Entwicklung der Skulptur nachhaltig prägt. Noch 1730 verweist Lione Pascoli in der Vita des Camillo Rusconi auf die Korrektivfunktion der antiken Vorbilder, deren Aufgabe es sei, die »vivezza, l’espressività, e la bizzaria de’ moderni« zu filtern und zu strukturieren.
Seit Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts grenzen sich die Bildhauer bewusst von ihren Vorgängern und deren Umgang mit dem antiken Erbe ab. Kritik üben Johann Joachim Winckelmann mit seinem Urteil über Gianlorenzo Berninis Stil als »verderbten Geschmack« sowie Quatremère de Quincy in seiner Warnung an Antonio Canova, falschen Vorbildern zu folgen und ein »Bernini à l‘antique« zu werden.
Dennoch ist die Skulptur beider Epochen untrennbar durch die Rezeption der Antike miteinander verbunden. Bis Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bleibt der im Seicento aufgestellte Kanon von Laokoon, Antinoos, Apoll von Belvedere über die Venus Medici bis zu den Philosophen- und Kaiserbildnissen gültig. Lediglich die ästhetischen und wissenschaftlichen Ansprüche an die Skulptur verändern sich, wie exemplarisch an der Rezeption des Apoll von Belvedere bei Bernini, Rusconi und Canova deutlich wird.
Einen kritischen Gegenpart zu den Künstlern bilden Autoren wie Gian Pietro Bellori, Giovanni Battista Passeri, Winckelmann und Carl Ludwig Fernow. Diese beurteilen unter anderem, wie nah die Bildhauer dem antiken Ideal hinsichtlich Invention, Komposition und Originalität kommen oder dieses sogar übertreffen. Dabei werden bewusst Dichotomien mit Blick auf die Qualität der Antikenrezeption einzelner Künstler eingeführt, wie Bernini/Algardi oder Canova/Thorvaldsen. Dies spiegelt sich auch in der Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes wider, die durch den gleichnamigen Vortrag Charles Perraults an der Académie Royale in Paris 1687 erneut aufflammt und bis Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts im Zentrum der Kunstgeschichtsschreibung steht. Im Rahmen eines Studientages soll epochenübergreifend über den Umgang mit der Antike in der italienischen Skulptur und deren Rezeption in der zeitgenössischen Kunstliteratur reflektiert werden.
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10:00 Museo Gregoriano Profano (Viale Vaticano) — Besichtigung (fakultativ)
14:00 ELISABETH KIEVEN (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rom), Begrüßung
14:10 ANNA SOPHIE RATH und CARINA BAURIEGEL (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rom), Einführung
TRANSFORMATION, Moderation: ELISABETH KIEVEN
14:30 BJÖRN STATNIK (Universität Würzburg), Winckelmanns „großer Bernini“. Die griechisch-antikischen Kunstideale Winckelmanns und Berninis bildhauerisches Frühwerk
15:10 CARINA BAURIEGEL (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rom), „A perfezione come gl’originali“. Antikenkopie bei Massimiliano Soldani Benzi
Kaffeepause
16:30 REGINA DECKERS (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rom), Venezianità, Spätbarock oder Früh-klassizismus? Stilbildung in der venezianischen Skulptur des Settecento
17:10 FABIEN BENUZZI (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venedig), Alle radici di Canova. Il recupero dell’antico nella scultura Veneziana del Settecento
17:50 JOHANNES MYSSOK (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf), „Un Bernin antique“. L’imitazione paradossale dell’antico di Antonio Canova
FESTVORTRAG
19:00 SEBASTIAN SCHÜTZE (Universität Wien), Gli scultori e il discorso di antichi e moderni. Testimonianze letterarie, argomenti visivi e qualche osserva-zione di metodo
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INSTRUKTION UND EXPOSITION, Moderation: GIOVANNA CAPITELLI (Università della Calabria)
9:00 ANGELA CIPRIANI (Accademia di San Luca, Roma), Dalla citazione all’invenzione. Il mutare della percezione dell’antico nei bassorilievi dei concorsi accademici
9:40 CHIARA GAUNA (Università di Torino), La difficile libertà dell’antico all’Accademie de France
10:20 CRISTIANO GIOMETTI (Università di Firenze), Nel solco dell’Accademia. Studio e pratica dell’antico nella scultura romana di primo Settecento
Kaffeepause
11:30 MARIO GUDERZO (Gipsoteca Canoviana, Possagno), Dal Fauno Barberini all’Endimione dormiente. Canova e l’antico
12:10 ELENA GRANUZZO (Università di Verona), Antonio Canova – Leopoldo Cicognara. Dialogo sull’antico
Mittagspause
INSPIRATION Moderation: SEBASTIAN SCHÜTZE
15:00 MALCOM BAKER (University of California, Riverside), Both British and Antique? Perceiving Difference in Portrait Busts by British Sculptors Working in Italy around 1760
15:40 STEFANO GRANDESSO (Rom), L’antico e i soggetti di genere nella scultura classicista. Da Ridolfo Schadow e Thorvaldsen ai pensionnaires francesi
16:20 ANNA SOPHIE RATH (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rom), Vice and Virtue. La visione dell’antico di John Gibson
17:00 Zusammenfassung und Schlussdiskussion
Conference | Baroque Art and Culture of the Danube
From the conference program, which includes speakers and presentation titles:
Barocke Kunst und Kultur im Donauraum
Passau und Linz, 9-13 April 2013
Im Jahr 1662 zerstörte ein verheerender Stadtbrand die mittelalterliche Passauer Bischofskirche. Der anschließende Wiederaufbau in barocken Bauformen vor nunmehr 350 Jahren gehört zu den wichtigsten Großbauprojekten dieser Epoche im gesamten Donauraum. Dies bildet den Anlass zur Veranstaltung eines Wissenschaftskongresses, der über das lokale Geschehen hinaus „Barocke Kunst und Kultur im Donauraum“ ganz allgemein in den Blick nimmt.
Dabei gilt es zunächst der Frage nach der „Konstituierung des ‚Donauraums‘ in der Barockzeit als Kunst- und Kulturlandschaft“ nachzugehen – Thema der ersten Sektion des Kongress. Die Entstehung des Donauraumes ist in geographischer, geschichtlicher, kultureller und religiöser Hinsicht von der Vielfalt nationaler Identitäten und Zugehörigkeiten bestimmt. Sie verkörpern als differenzierte Einheit den Reichtum dieser Kulturlandschaft. Zudem ist in der Vielfalt eine Gegensätzlichkeit begründet, die eine bis heute wirksame Abgrenzung von Okzident und Orient bestimmt und in einer entsprechenden kulturgeographischen Differenzierung zum Ausdruck kommt. Der gesamte Flusslauf, von der Quelle bis zur Mündung , ist hier Gegenstand der Überlegungen. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Territorien Bayerns und Österreichs sowie die eng mit dem habsburgischen Kaiserhaus verbundenen landesherrlichen Gebiete des Königreichs Böhmen, der Markgrafschaft Mähren, Schlesiens und des Königreichs
Ungarn. Das einst von Passau aus gelenkte „Donaubistum“ bildete einen wichtigen Ankerpunkt gemeinsamer kultureller und religiöser Identität in diesem Raum. (more…)
Study Day | Objects From Abroad: The Life of Exotic Goods
Objects From Abroad: The Life of Exotic Goods
in France and the United States (18th-20th Centuries)
New York University, 25 April 2013
Register by 19 April 2013
9:15 Noémie Etienne, Introduction
9:30 O B J E T S S A U V A G E S
• Manuel Charpy (CNRS), Exchanges of Times: Curio Hunting and Market of Archaic Goodsbetween France and United States in the 19th Century
• Yaëlle Biro (Metropolitan Museum), Crossing Boundaries: The Trade in African Art and Commercial Practices at the Turn of the 20th Century
• Monique Jeudy-Ballini (CNRS) and Brigitte Derlon (EHESS), Domesticating While Keeping Wild: On French Collectors of ‘Primitive Art’
11:00 Break
11:20 F R O M P L A C E T O D I S P L A Y
• Fred Myers (Anthropology, NYU), Paintings, Publics, and Protocols: A Problem of Aboriginal Art
• Hannah S. Fullgraf (Dallas Museum of Art), The Journey of a Kwakwaka’wakw House Post from British Columbia to Paris
• Jean-François Staszak (University of Geneva) and Jean Estebanez (University Paris Diderot), Western Zoological Gardens and the Objectification / Exoticization of Human and Non-Human Animals
12:50 Lunch break
14:20 T R A V E L L I N G A P P E A R A N C E S
• Madeleine Dobie (French Studies, Columbia University), Furniture, Culture, and Commerce in 18th-Century France
• Rustem Ertug Altinay (Department of Performance Studies, NYU), The Daughters of the Republic on the Catwalk: Turkey’s Diplomatic Fashion Shows in France and the United States
• Mei Mei Rado (Bard Graduate Center, New York), The Hybrid Orient: Japonisme and Nationalism in the Takashimaya Mandarin Robes
• Lauren Benetua (Marist-Lorenzo de’Medici, Florence), Imperial Collecting and Pacific Adaptations: On Textiles, Cloth, and Clothing
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NYU Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 4 Washington Square North, New York, 10003 – Phone: +1-212-992-7488. Please register by April 19 at valerie.dubois@nyu.edu.
Symposium | Design and Mobility
From Parsons The New School for Design:
Design and Mobility: The 22nd Annual Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Symposium
on the Decorative Arts and Design
Parsons The New School for Design, New York, 26-27 April 2013
A keynote address by Professor Edward Cooke of Yale University will be delivered and papers delivered by graduate students and faculty from universities around the US and UK. Free and open to the public.
This year’s theme is mobility which has become one of the defining traits of the age: new modes of living and transportation have created increasingly mobile lifestyles, aided by mobile communications networks, cultural products can move and spread across the globe with ease, and changing climate conditions are forcing relocations and rethinking of building patterns. On the individual scale, designers have worked with transformable and reusable products, or to help make individuals more mobile. The symposium will explore various aspects of mobility in the decorative arts and design — on macro and micro scales, from literal to metaphoric perspectives.
Sponsored by The MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design, School of Art and Design History and Theory, Parsons The New School for Design in conjunction with: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution with the additional support of: donations to the Catherine Hoover Voorsanger memorial fund.
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F R I D A Y , 2 6 A P R I L 2 0 1 3
5:30 The Catherine Hoover Voorsanger Keynote Address
Edward Cooke (Yale University), Design and Mobility
S A T U R D A Y , 2 7 A P R I L 2 0 1 3
11:00 Session I
• Iris Moon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), The Cabinet de platine (1800-1804): Monumentality, Materiality, and the Mobile Interior at the End of the Enlightenment
• Penny Wolfson (Parsons The New School for Design/Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum), The Wheelchair in Post-Civil War America
• Rebecca Gross (Parsons The New School for Design/Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum), Holiday Magazine: Paving the Postwar American Dream Road with Patriotism
2:30 Session II
• Jonathan Patkowski (City University of New York Graduate Center), Transformation, Reproduction, Reuse: The Reception of Asian Silks in Late Medieval Italy
• Neil Malcolm Douglas Ewins (University of Sunderland), UK Ceramic Manufacturing Strategy, Marketing, and Design in Response to Globalization, ca. 1990-2010
• Elise Hodson (York University), ‘Born and Raised on Kickstarter’: The Near Immaculate Conception of a Smart Watch Named Pebble
Conference | British Women Travelers in Lyon
Next month at the Musées Gadagne de Lyon, as noted by Hélène Bremer (the programme is available as a PDF here) . . .
Les Voyageuses Britanniques à Lyon
Musées Gadagne de Lyon, 5-6 April 2013
Détail Le pont Morand en aval du quai de Retz et les Brotteaux, aquarelle et gouache, 18e siècle © musées Gadagne / T. O’Neill
Ce séminaire de recherche interdisciplinaire accueillera des anglicistes, des historiens, des géographes, des spécialistes des études de genre et proposera d’analyser un corpus inédit de récits de voyages publiés par des femmes britanniques au cours du « long XVIIIe siècle », ce qui correspond dans l’historiographie britannique à la période qui s’étend entre la « révolution glorieuse » de 1688 et le début du règne de la reine Victoria en 1837.
Partant d’interrogations à la croisée de plusieurs champs disciplinaires, ce séminaire propose d’étudier la place et le rôle de la ville de Lyon dans l’itinéraire des voyageuses britanniques. La démarche sera comparative et envisagera les représentations féminines de la ville de Lyon par rapport à d’autres étapes du Grand Tour mais aussi par rapport à celles que l’on trouve dans les récits masculins. À partir du modèle lyonnais, notre travail s’inscrira dans le sillage d’études récentes sur la féminisation du Grand Tour.
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14.15 Ouverture du Colloque, Mariaanne Privatsavigny (Directrice du Musée Gadagne) et Isabelle Baudino (ENS de Lyon, LIRE)
14.30 Conférence Inaugurale — Patrick Vincent, (Université de Neufchâtel) Remembering the Mules: Les voyageuses britanniques dans les Alpes
Présidence: Catherine Delmas (Université Grenoble 3)
15.30 Nicolas Bourguinat (Université de Strasbourg), Le séjour de Miss Berry à Lyon
16.00 Nicole Pellegrin (CNRS, ENS), Couples en Voyages: Les Cradocks à Lyon en 1784
16.45 Pause
17.00 Gilles Bertrand (Université Grenoble 2, IUF), Lyon dans le Voyage d’Italie: Tradition consolidée
ou expérience mouvante ( XVIII – début XIX siècle)
17.30 Bernard Gauthiez (Université Lyon 3), L’espace évoqué par les voyageuses anglaises à Lyon, confronté à l’espace réel
20.00 Dîner du colloque
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9.00 Accueil des Participants, Présidence: Gilles Bertrand (Université Grenoble 2, IUF)
9.30 Stephen Bending (University of Southampton), Anne Plumptre, Antoine-François Delandine and the Destruction of Lyons
10.00 Stéphanie Gourdon (Université Lyon 2), Lyon, the Opulent City: La vision politique d’Helen Maria Williams sous la Terreur dans Letters from France
10.45 Pause
11.00 Isabelle Baudino (ENS, LIRE), Lyon: A celebrated place of education
11.30 Tino Gipponi (Fondazione Maria Cosway, Lodi), Maria Cosway a Lione
12.30 Buffet au Café Gadagne, Présidence: Stephen Lloyd (Knowsley Hall)
14.00 Clare Hornsby (Benedictus College), Ellis Cornelia Knight as Artist, Writer and Traveller in Eighteenth-century Italy
14.30 Silvia Blasio (Università di Perugia), L’iconografia di Lione nel’ opera di William Marlow
15.15 Pause
15.30 Freya Gowrley (University of Edinburgh), A Temple to Travel: The grand tour souvenir and the construction of feminine identity in the aesthetic programme of À la Ronde, Devon
16.00 Hannah Sikstrom (University of Oxford), A Quest for Authenticity: The Constructed Identities of British Female Travellers in 19th-Century Italy
Conference | Peter the Great
From the Fondation Singer-Polignac:
Pierre le Grand et l’Europe Intellectuelle: Contexte, Réseaux, Circulation, Réalisations
Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris, 28-29 March 2013
Le règne de Pierre le Grand se scande en deux parties. À son avènement, il comprit les difficultés dues à un certain retard technologique de la Russie. Le transfert (par toutes les filières possibles) et l’acculturation des connaissances venues d’Europe devinrent le leitmotiv de sa politique. De son vivant, le tsar fut comparé à Prométhée. Presque tout était à créer. Le corpus des savoirs nécessaires était insuffisant. Les structures étatiques archaïques, que ce soit dans le domaine diplomatique, militaire ou administratif, ne lui permettaient pas d’affronter les problèmes d’actualité. L’état obsolète de la technique – artillerie, armement, fortifications, mines et métallurgie – freinait les ambitions géopolitiques du monarque. D’autres infrastructures, la marine de guerre par exemple, n’existaient pas. Il manquait également un système d’enseignement et des structures de production scientifiques. Deux décennies durant, Pierre Ier s’efforça à esquiver ou à parer les coups en les anticipant dans la mesure du possible. Il travailla ainsi dans l’improvisation, au gré des nécessités militaires, politiques et sociales. Vers la fin des années 1710, la guerre du Nord touchant à sa fin, il prit conscience d’avoir accumulé suffisamment d’expérience en matière d’appropriation des connaissances européennes ; ses réformes devinrent de plus en plus réfléchies et systématiques. Dans ce nouveau paradigme, les savoirs artistiques, scientifiques et administratifs changèrent de signification et rejoignirent, à titre d’égalité, le transfert des connaissances techniques. Le pragmatisme de Pierre Ier répondait au principe de l’utilité, à une forme d’utilitarisme moral et économique destiné à réaliser un projet sociétal. C’est l’axe majeur de cette rencontre internationale. Les études qui se proposent d’examiner globalement le phénomène de transfert et son impact sur la Russie et l’Europe occidentale restent rares. Dans le cadre de ce colloque, nous nous proposons d’affronter un défi, en réunissant autour de ces grands axes de réflexion des chercheurs ayant mené, depuis une vingtaine d’années, des enquêtes originales et souvent inédites sur les divers aspects des relations entre la Russie et l’Occident à l’époque pétrovienne.
Consulter le programme sur le site de la Fondation Singer-Polignac.
Conference | Architecture and the Street
From the conference website:
Cambridge Conference Talks VII: Architecture and the Street
Harvard University, Cambridge, 29 March 2013
Organized by Morgan Ng and Jason Nguyen
The PhD program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design is pleased to invite you to the seventh annual Cambridge Talks conference, entitled Architecture and the Street, which will take place on Friday, March 29, 2013, 9:00-4:30, in Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall.
No building is an island – and in the context of the city, architecture takes shape in relation to the street. Arcades and façade treatments, lighting fixtures and shop windows, setback and building height restrictions: each of these mediate how buildings interact with streets as spaces of visual display and public sociability. More recently, the construction of flyovers and underground transport systems has transformed streets into ever-more complex, multi-layered spatial armatures for architectural intervention. Streets serve as the liminal zones by which architectural form and symbolism meet with the contingencies of urban life.
Cambridge Talks VII seeks to bring fresh historical themes and tools to bear on the problem of Architecture and the Street. New research promises to enrich and challenge perspectives pioneered by Spiro Kostof, Jane Jacobs, and William H. Whyte. How does the infrastructural function of streets as circulation (of people, goods, water, and waste) press against the static character of architecture? How do streets serve as the spatial framework for social control, ceremony, procession, and protest? How might we theorize and historicize modern streets as sites of cultural memory and nostalgia? And above all, what are the effects of such social, political, and technological forces on architectural form?
Cambridge Talks is generously supported by the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs & the GSAS Graduate Student Council. The event is free and open to the public.
P R O G R A M
9:00 Breakfast
9:30 Introduction
9:45 Session I: The Street between Infrastructure and Architectural Form
• Katherine Rinne (California College of the Arts), Walking on Water in Rome: Streets and Water in the Baroque City
• Richard Wittman (UC Santa Barbara), Architecture, Authority and the Street in Eighteenth-Century Paris
• Eric Mumford (WashU), CIAM, Sert and the Street
Discussion, moderated by Sonja Duempelmann (Harvard)
11:15 Break
11:30 Session II: The Street as Territorial Network
• Gabrielle Esperdy (NJIT), The Street, the Strip, and the Freeway: On the Legibility of Place in the Territories of the Car
• Ateya Khorakiwala (Harvard), Street Paint: A Story of India’s National Development
• Keller Easterling (Yale), No Road
Discussion, moderated by Brian Goldstein (Harvard)
1:00 Lunch Break
2:30 Session III: The Street as Space of Social Protest and Control
• Cesare Birignani (Harvard), The Trouble with the Street
• Christopher Heuer (Princeton) and Matthew Jesse Jackson (UChicago), 7 March 1965: Selma and the Architecture of the Event
• Mariana Mogilevich (NYU), Street Psychology and the Politics of Pedestrianization
Discussion, moderated by Neil Brenner (Harvard)
4:30 Closing Remarks
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