Exhibition and Conference: ‘Palladio and His Legacy’
This show which was at the Morgan last summer opens at Notre Dame with a full conference this weekend. My sense is that the exhibition functions rather differently in these two venues — one might think not only about the reception of Palladio but also the reception of the exhibition. From the Snite website:
Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, 2 April — 1 August 2010
National Building Museum, Washington D.C., 2 September 2011 — 30 January 2011
Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, 5 June — 31 July 2011
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 3 September — 31 December 2011
Conjectural portrait of Andrea Palladio, ca. 1715, engraved after Sebastiano Ricci (RIBA British Architectural Library)
This traveling exhibition organized by the Royal Institute of British Architects in association with the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Vicenza, offers a rare opportunity to see thirty-one drawings by the famous 16th-century architect, Andrea Palladio, along with seven books, fifteen models of related buildings, and eight bas-reliefs of some of the drawings (3-D projections of architectural drawings).
The Late Italian Renaissance master Andrea Palladio (Italian, 1508–1580) is the most influential architect of the last 500 years. His architecture synthesized the lessons of the ancient Romans with the achievements of his predecessors and contemporaries, including Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Palladio’s mastery of the classical orders, proportion, and harmony was unparalleled. His projects in Venice and the surrounding region set new standards in design and redefined the potential of the art form, especially for domestic structures.
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From Vernacular to Classical: The Perpetual Modernity of Palladio
University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, 10-12 June 2011
Bringing together scholars, practitioners, educators, and students from various disciplines, the conference will explore how the Palladian tradition inspires the evolution of classical architecture. One of the most influential architects in history, 16th-century Italian Andrea Palladio’s impact is evident throughout the United States. Buildings such as the White House, the U. S. Capitol, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the National Gallery of Art bear his imprint. Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia home, Monticello, is modeled after Palladio’s famed Villa Rotonda in Vicenza, Italy. Conference participants will reconnect Palladian ideals to the living tradition that has informed these icons of American democracy and continue to shape vital paradigms for sustainable architecture and urbanism. Two exhibitions, Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey at the University of Notre Dame’s Snite Museum of Art and the New Palladians, an exhibition of 50 international classical architects’ work in the Bond Hall Gallery, also will be held in conjunction with the conference.
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Conference at York: The Portrait and the Country House
From York’s Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies:
Placing Faces: The Portrait and the Country House in the Long Eighteenth Century
King’s Manor, York, 11 June 2011
Postgraduate Organisers: Jordan Vibert and Hannah Lyons
This interdisciplinary conference is concerned with the complex relationship between eighteenth-century portraits and the places they were so often ultimately destined for – the country houses of Britain’s landed elites. These grand houses were vast public spaces, used by their owners to systematically showcase their political power and social status. Commissioning and displaying portraits was one way in which a family could aggrandize themselves, whether by making a genealogical link to a military hero or a royal relative, or by making a broader national claim to political allegiance or imperial dominance. But portraits could also interact with country houses in other quite surprising ways, drawing together seemingly disparate contexts and narratives to create new and unexpected meanings. A portrait of a woman, for example, could vastly complicate seemingly confident masculine displays of martial heroism and political power, while a depiction of a dead child might forge unsettling connections between private grief and public narratives of bloody warfare and imperial dominion. It is these complex interactions between the portrait and the wide array of familial and national narratives at work in the country house that this conference sets out to unravel. Our speakers are a mixture of established academics, professional curators and young researchers working in a range of disciplines and environments.
P R O G R A M M E Printer-friendly programme (Word. doc)
10.30 Registration and tea/coffee
11.00 Session 1: The Portrait and the Estate
- Keynote Speaker – Dr Kate Retford (Birkbeck College, University of London) ‘The Topography of the Conversation Piece – A Walk around Wanstead’
- Dr Leslie Johansen (Council for British Archaeology) ‘A Look into the Prospect Beyond: The Portrait and the English Designed Landscape’
12.30 Lunch
1.25 Session 2: Collection and Display
- Desmond Shawe-Taylor (Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures) ‘George IV as a Collector of full-length Portraits’
- Professor Marcia Pointon (University of Manchester) ‘The Woburn Abbey Portraits’
2.40 Tea/coffee
3.10 Session 3: Gendered Displays
- Professor Gill Perry (Open University) ‘Dirty Dancing at Knole: Portraits of Giovanna Baccelli and the Performance of ‘Public Intimacy’
- Jordan Vibert (University of York) ‘Lady Anne Stanhope and Sir Francis Blake Delaval at Ford Castle: Female Sociability, Military Masculinity and the Seven Years’ War’
The conference fee is £12 (£10 for registrations received before 31st March). This fee includes tea, coffee and a simple sandwich lunch.
For details concerning registration, consult the CECS website.
20 Grants for Traveling to 2012 CAA in Los Angeles
Given that many of Enfilade’s readers are not based in the U.S., this announcement may be useful, especially for readers “from developing countries or from nations not well represented in CAA’s membership.” It would be nice to see a scholar of the eighteenth century among the recipients, and we would love to see you at the HECAA events. From CAA News:
The Getty Foundation has awarded a $100,000 grant to CAA in support of international travel for twenty applicants to attend the 100th Annual Conference and Centennial Celebration, taking place February 22–25, 2012, in Los Angeles. Through the new Getty Foundation Travel Grant Program, CAA will provide funds for travel expenses, hotel accommodations, per diems, and conference registrations. Recipients will also receive one-year CAA memberships. Applicants may be art historians, artists who teach art history, and art historians who are museum curators; those from developing countries or from nations not well represented in CAA’s membership are especially encouraged to apply.
The goal of the project is to increase international participation in CAA and to diversify the organization’s membership (presently sixty-five countries are represented). CAA also wishes to familiarize international participants with the submission process for conference sessions and to expand their professional network in the visual arts. Members of CAA’s International Committee have agreed to host the participants, and the National Committee for the History of Art will also lend support to the program.
CAA will publish an official call for grant applications on its website on Friday, July 8, 2011; the program will also be publicized in CAA News. A jury will select the twenty grant recipients.
First Annual Art History Festival at Fontainebleau
Thanks to Melissa Hyde for pointing this out. From the festival website:
Festival de l’histoire de l’art
Fontainebleau, 27-29 May 2011
Le festival, c’est une série de conférences, de débats, de concerts, de lectures, autour d’un thème et d’un pays invité, qui changeront chaque année. Pour cette première édition, le choix s’est porté sur la Folie et l’Italie. Mais c’est aussi un ensemble de rendez-vous pérennes: un forum traitant des questions d’actualité en histoire de l’art, un salon du livre et des revues d’art, et un festival du film d’art. De plus, accompagnant l’introduction de l’histoire de l’art dans les programmes du primaire et du secondaire, l’université de printemps de l’Éducation Nationale s’associe au festival. Vous trouverez ci-dessous les programmes de toutes ces manifestations.
Details, including a full program, are available here»
Exhibition and Symposium: Early American Maps and Prints
From The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation:
More than Meets the Eye: Maps and Prints of Early America
DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Williamsburg, VA, 26 March 2011 — April 2012
The exhibition features 35 maps, portraits, and other graphic images that invite the viewer to look more deeply into the subtle messages delivered by artisans depicting America. Maps, in particular, were regarded as scientific and authoritative documents, imparting a perception of power and control over the environment. As such, they also became important tools for swaying public opinion. The factors that motivated the production of individual maps often become apparent through close scrutiny of their decorative features and the information their creators chose to include–or omit.
In addition to objects from the Colonial Williamsburg collections, the exhibition includes an outstanding documentary source for the 1920s restoration of the historic town—the “Frenchman’s” map, loaned by the College of William and Mary. The Connecticut Historical Society has also kindly agreed to loan their copy of Abel Buell’s A NEW and correct Map of the
UNITED STATES of AMERICA, the first map of the thirteen states to be
published after the Congress of the Confederation ratified the treaty on
January 14, 1784.
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Symposium: More than Meets the Eye: Maps and Prints of Early America
DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Williamsburg, VA, 16-18 October 2011
In conjunction with the exhibition, Colonial Williamsburg will sponsor a symposium from October 16-18, 2011 that will feature lectures focusing on the men who created these objects, how they assembled and disseminated their information, and the factors that motivated them to create powerful and influential images. Speakers will include Philip Burden, Paul Cohen, Louis De Vorsey, Matthew Edney, William Gartner, and Henry Taliaferro. The conference begins with an opening reception Sunday evening followed by two days of lectures, Monday and Tuesday. A complete conference agenda will be posted as soon as it is available.
Conference: Theories and Things, New Directions for the Decorative Arts
With Julie Ramos, I am organizing a study day at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) featuring the research of upcoming junior scholars on new directions in the decorative arts. The event will cover several centuries and artistic mediums that intersect with material culture, ornament, objects, and materiality. For Enfilade readers, there will be some excellent presentations on eighteenth-century art, notably by Delphine Burlot, Elisa Foster, Anne Perrin Khelissa, and Boris Gibhardt. If you will be in Paris in early June, I hope to see you there. – JF.
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Des Théories et des choses: nouvelles orientations dans l’étude des arts décoratifs
Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, 6 June 2011
La « culture matérielle », notion globalisante bien que problématique, permet de rapprocher de nombreuses disciplines savantes, des études américaines aux Visual Studies, en passant par l’anthropologie, la philosophie, l’architecture, l’histoire de l’art, l’histoire et la littérature. Elle se manifeste notamment de manière implicite dans nombre de projets menés actuellement, par exemple dans le thème de la prochaine conférence du CIHA (Comité International d’Histoire d’Art) en 2012, The Challenge of the Object, ainsi que dans la future exposition Paris: Life and Luxury au Getty Institute de Los Angeles, qui prévoit l’exposition des objets dans un intérieur parisien reconstitué. Cette actualité est l’occasion d’interroger la manière dont les objets sont traités, comparés et évalués. La tendance à une normalisation et à une naturalisation des termes par le discours de l’histoire de l’art invitent à de nouvelles analyses et clarifications. Cette journée d’études se propose d’examiner pourquoi et comment les théories de la “culture matérielle” sont presque devenues synonymes d’étude des arts décoratifs, en cela toutes périodes et techniques de fabrication confondues. Elle a pour objectif de présenter les travaux de jeunes chercheurs (doctorants et post-doctorants) de différentes spécialités portant sur des objets de la culture matérielle. Il s’agira d’ouvrir ainsi des perspectives nuancées et critiques pour l’étude de ce champ, engageant des questions d’historiographie, d’histoire de l’art, de philosophie et d’esthétique. En remettant en jeu l’identité de l’objet autant que la conception de sa matérialité, cette journée entend redonner une dimension critique aux théories de la culture matérielle et explorer leurs apports à l’histoire de l’art. Contact: jennifer.ferng@inha.fr
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1: La culture matérielle
Modération: Julie Ramos (INHA)
9h30 – 9h50: Anne PERRIN KHELISSA (Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art)
Le statut juridique des objets du décor à Gênes au XVIIIe siècle. Une question posée à l’histoire de la culture matérielle nobiliaire
9h50 – 10h10: Jennifer FERNG (MIT / INHA)
Les états révolutionnaires d’échange: L’économie matérielle ou la transformation de l’ornement et de la monnaie
10h10 – 10h30: Damien DELILLE (Université François Rabelais de Tours / INHA)
“Les arts de la personnalité”: costume symboliste et critique du dandy fin de siècle
10h30 – 11h00: Discussion
11h00 – 11h15: Pause (more…)
Study Days on Theatricality in French Painting
From Le blog de APAHAU:
Le Tableau et la Scène. Peinture et mise en scène du répertoire héroïque dans la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle autour des figures des Coypel
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, 16-17 May 2011
Que la Cléopâtre avalant le poison de Charles- Antoine Coypel, ou le Portrait de Mademoiselle Clairon en Médée de Carle Vanloo, soient empreints dʼun imaginaire lié au théâtre, semble une évidence. Mais la formulation positive de leur « théâtralité » pose question. Trop souvent réduite à une qualité seulement sensible, désignant toute recherche ostentatoire de lʼeffet (la grandiloquence des mouvements, lʼexacerbation des sentiments ou encore la pompe des décors), la « théâtralité » se déplace au contraire dans le paysage historique en fonction dʼidées et dʼexpériences concrètes relatives aux arts dramatiques. Elle peut dès lors être repérée, et même définie par lʼexamen du théâtre lui-même, dans son authentique perspective du XVIIIe siècle – à travers lʼétude de sa dramaturgie, de ses décors et de son espace scénique, du jeu ou du costume de ses acteurs… (more…)
Conference in Paris: Art and Sociability in the Eighteenth Century
If you will be in Paris for the summer, do not miss Art et Sociabilité au 18e siècle. The full conference program is now available online. –JF
Art et Sociabilité au 18e siècle
Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, 23-25 June 2011
Over the past two decades, sociabilité has become a useful and hotly debated concept for discussing the social, political and cultural changes during the eighteenth century. The works of Daniel Roche, Dena Goodman, Daniel Gordon, Antoine Lilti, and others have demonstrated that sociabilité can be fruitfully approached from the perspectives of sociology, philosophy and anthropology. In the eighteenth century, the Encyclopédie defined the term as “This inclination we have to do to others all the good that we can, to reconcile our happiness with that of others, and always to subordinate our personal advantage to the overall and communal advantage” (Louis de Jaucourt, 1751-1765) – that is, it was an abstract concept that explained the desire humankind had to participate in society. At the time, it was intricately linked to the social practice of commerce, broadly defined as any reciprocal communication or exchange. The emerging public sphere of the period, constituted by spaces such as academies, literary salons, and Masonic lodges,
was the stage on which such exchanges were enacted.
Since the publication of Thomas Crow’s Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris, art historians have taken an interest in the role of artists in the public sphere. These studies tend to take a monographic approach that is more interested in reconstructing the history of an individual artist, salonnière, or collector rather than the role that artworks played in larger systems of practice and exchange. This symposium will examine sociabilité in the eighteenth-century art world through the theme of social practice. By investigating the social practices of artists, amateurs, critics, salonniers and others we seek to uncover the larger networks of social exchange created by the commerce of material objects through collection practices, the art market and the display of art, and by the commerce of ideas through writing and conversation. To what extent did social practices in the public sphere influence artistic production and the material, economic, and verbal exchanges that took place around that production?
Study Tour of Scotland / Conference on Edinburgh Cast Collection
This study tour sounds appealing enough on its own, but I was especially struck by the timing: it’s organized in conjunction with the EAHN/Docomomo conference. So often it seems that academic conferences could do a better job exploring the host area’s resources, and yet schedules tend to hold little room for excursions. This seems like an interesting solution. Also, as noted on the itinerary, there is at the same time a conference on the Edinburgh Cast Collection. -CH
EAHN Architectural Study Tour of Scotland
8-11 September 2011
Registration due by 1 June 2011
Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh (Photo by James Denham, Wikimedia Commons)
Join the European Architectural History Network for an architectural study tour of Scotland from 8-11 September 2011. Tour highlights include Edinburgh, Glasgow, and five centuries of Scottish architecture, ranging from a selection of castles through postwar mass housing. The tour will be led by local scholars and will be accompanied by a coordinator from the EAHN. The tour fee of 96 euros includes guides and tour bus transportation; it does not include hotels, meals, or international transportation. For complete information and registration details, please consult the schedule.
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Cast Collection, Edinburgh College of Art
Also in September, the Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Edinburgh will host a conference on the Edinburgh Cast Collection. Founded in 1798, this is the second oldest educational collection in the UK, with donations by Lord Elgin, Canova, Thorvaldsen. The conference will be a major academic event with a section on Architecture and Cityscape. Details will be available in June.
Women’s Studies Group Annual Workshop in London
From the Women’s Studies Group website:
Annual Workshop of the Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837
University College London, 25 June 2011
We are delighted to announce that Dr Ann B. (Rusty) Shteir will be the guest speaker at our annual workshop on Saturday 25 June. The topic is ‘Myths of Flora: Representing, Repudiating, Recuperating the Goddess of Flowers’. Dr Shteir is Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities, York University, Toronto. Her book Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora’s Daughters and Botany in England, 1760 to 1860 was awarded the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for Women’s History, American Historical Association, 1996. She will introduce eighteenth-century Flora mythologies as depicted in mythology textbooks and other visual and textual forms and discuss the different interpretive methods for analysing the Flora Story.
Delegates are invited to bring presentations in the following subjects:
Women and Science
Women and Botany
Mythologies
Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century
Full details are now available on our website. All are welcome – please forward this message to your friends and colleagues. We recommend early registration as places will be limited.
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