ASECS in Albuquerque — What a Schedule!
The 2010 ASECS conference takes place in Albuquerque, March 18-21, at the Hotel Albuquerque. Along with our annual luncheon and business meeting, HECAA will be represented by two panels, chaired by Wendy Wassying Roworth and Adrienne Childs:
Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA) New Scholars Session
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 11:30-1:00, Turquoise
Chair: Wendy Wassyng ROWORTH, University of Rhode Island
- Rose LOGIE, University of Toronto, “The Artful Voyeur: Watteau, Drawing, and Spectatorship”
- Anne-Louise G. FONESCA, University of Montréal, “Mythological Painting in Eighteenth-Century Portugal: Models, Nudity and Patronage”
- Hilary Coe SMITH, Duke University, “A New Approach to Measuring Taste in the Parisian Art Market, 1760-1784”
- Diana CHENG, McGill University, “The Boudoir of the Marquise Du Châtelet: A Chapel for Oneself and the Illusion of Happiness”
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Theorizing the Decorative in Eighteenth-Century Art (HECAA)
Friday, 19 March 2010, 4:15-5:45, Alvarado A
Chair: Adrienne CHILDS, University of Maryland
- B.A. HARRINGTON, University of Wisconsin, “Virtue Embodied: A Polite and Dutiful Worktable”
- Ethan LASSER, The Chipstone Foundation, “The Phenomenology of Decoration”
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HECAA Luncheon and Business Meeting
Friday, 19 March 2010, 1:00-2:30, Franciscan Ballroom
OTHER SESSIONS RELATED TO THE VISUAL ARTS
THURSDAY, 18 March 2010
Gender and Homosociality in the Long Eighteenth Century
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 8:00-9:30, Alvarado G
Chair: Heidi STROBEL, University of Evansville
- Jennifer GERMANN, Ithaca College, “Women’s Networks and Artistic Survival: The Case of Marie-Éléonore Godefroid”
- Amber LUDWIG, Boston University, “Re-Evaluating Vigée-Lebrun’s Portrait of Lady Hamilton as a Sibyl”
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Theories of Visual Experience and Artists’ Writings about Art in the Eighteenth Century
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 8:00-9:30, Alvarado C
Chair: Maureen HARKIN, Reed College
- Hector REYES, Northwestern University, “Drawing History: Dialectics of Visual Experience in the Comte de Caylus’ Recueil”
- Lyrica TAYLOR, University of Maryland, “Portrait of the Artist: John Francis Rigaud’s Vision of the Role of the Artist in Eighteenth-Century England”
- Abigail ZITIN, University of Chicago, “Hogarth’s Drawing Lesson: Technique and Gender in The Analysis of Beauty”
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Portraits and Money
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 8:00-9:30, Alvarado H
Chair: Bradford MUDGE, University of Colorado, Denver
- Susan EGENOLF, Texas A&M University, “Narrative as Commodity in the Marketing of Wedgwood’s Fine Heads”
- Megan PEISER, Texas Tech University, “A Picture of Commodity: The Culture of Miniatures in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho”
- Tatiana SENKEVITCH, University of Toronto, “The Flip Side of the Ancient Coin: Du Bos on the Portraiture of the King”
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The Eighteenth Century in Motion
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 8:00-9:30, Suite 418
Chair: Alistaire TALLENT, Colorado College
- Lila Miranda GRAVES, University of Alabama, Birmingham, “Walking the Western Circuit: Paradise Hall, Glastonbury Tor and the Arthurian Context of Tom Jones”
- Meredith DAVIS, Ramapo College of New Jersey, “Hogarth In Flight”
- Michael YONAN, University of Missouri, “Movement, Perception, and Salvation in the Bavarian Rococo Church”
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‘Venice’ in the Imagination of the Creative Artist and the Discursive Citizen
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 9:45-11:15, Alvarado G
Chair: Todd L. LARKIN, Montana State University
- Sally GRANT, University of Sydney, “The World in the Venetian Countryside: The Tiepolos at the Villa Valmarana ai Nani”
- Sabrina FERRI, University of Notre Dame, “Venice on Stage: Gozzi’s Theater Between Conservatism and Innovation”
- Irene ZANINI-CORDI, Florida State University, “Lagoon Waters: Double Vision of Venetian Festivities”
- Lisa BERGLUND, Buffalo State College, State University of New York, “Sweet Seducements and Wandering Misery: Hester Lynch Piozzi Reflects on Venice”
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Moving Vegetation: Collecting, Transplanting, and Acclimatizing Plants in the Long Eighteenth Century
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 9:45-11:15, Suite 518
Chair: Giulia PACINI, The College of William & Mary
- Glynis RIDLEY, University of Louisville, “Eating Locally, Eating Globally: The Naturalization of Exotics and the Eighteenth-Century Imperial Enterprise”
- Stephanie VOLMER, Managing Editor, Raritan Quarterly, Rutgers University, “Escaping Plants and Other Examples of Botanical Mobility”
- Mira RADANOVIC, McMaster University, “‘Lily flowers steeped in alcohol, an excellent vulnerary’: The Interests, Surfeits, Debts, and Fetishes of Florilegium Culture”
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Tradition and Innovation in Northern New Spain: Revisiting Eighteenth-Century New Mexico
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 9:45-11:15, Weaver
Chair: Cristina Cruz GONZÁLEZ, Oklahoma State University
- Robin Farwell GAVIN, Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, Santa Fe, “Eighteenth-Century Altarscreens of New Mexico”
- William WROTH, Independent Curator and Scholar, “Ethnic Complexity in Eighteenth-Century Ranchos de Taos”
- Jacqueline Orsini DUNNINGTON, Independent Scholar, “Tracking the Virgin of Guadalupe in New Mexico”
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Artists’ Lives and Afterlives: Fact, Fiction, and Fabrication
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 11:30-1:00, Alvarado B
Chair: Heather MCPHERSON, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Sarah MONKS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, “Life/Studies: Living as an Artist in Late Eighteenth-Century London”
- Robert MODE, Vanderbilt University, “Staging the Life of Hogarth or The Artist’s Progress”
- Paulo M. KÜHL, State University of Campinas (Brazil), “Making Heroes in the Institut de France: Joachim Le Breton’s Notices Historiques”
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Pastiche in the Eighteenth Century
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 2:30-4:00, Alvarado G
Chair: Julie-Anne PLAX, University of Arizona
- Julia ABRAMSON, University of Oklahoma, “What We Read into a Novel: Pastiche, Postiche, and the Two Authors of Marivaux’s Paysan parvenu”
- Paula RADISICH, Whittier College, “Pastiche & Chardin’s Genre Subjects”
- Wendy Wassyng ROWORTH, University of Rhode Island, “The ‘Characteristical’ Style and Salvator Rosa and in England”
- Susan M. DIXON, University of Tulsa, “Stone Soup, or Leftovers from the Farnese Collection in Rome”
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Mapmaker, Make me a Map: Eighteenth-Century Cartographies
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 4:15-5:45, Alvarado A
Chair: Karen STOLLEY, Emory University
- Brittany ANDERSON, Emory University, “Geography of Latin American Cities in the Encyclopedia metódica: Imagining the New World in the Eighteenth-Century”
- Neal Anthony MESSER, Murray State University, “Imagined Order: Mapping What ‘Should Be’ in Eighteenth-Century Mexico”
- Magali M. CARRERA, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, “Localist Cartographies: Indigenous Mapping of Late Eighteenth-Century New Spain”
- Trevor SPELLER, State University of New York, Buffalo, “Cartographic Humor and Cartographic Power in Gulliver’s Travels”
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FRIDAY, 19 March 2010
Cultures of Flowers
Friday, 19 March 2010, 8:00-9:30, Suite 318A
Chair: Melissa HYDE, University of Florida
- Mira MORGENSTERN, City College of New York, “The ‘Blooming’ Truth: Rousseau and the Paradox of Flowers”
- John KOSTER, University of Toronto, “The Political Aesthetics of Goethe’s Metamorphosis of Plants (1790)”
- Ann SHTEIR, York University, “Flora in the Vernacular: ‘Artificial Flower Gardens’ in 1780s London”
- Julia SHAPCHENKO, All-Russian Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg, “Count Razumovsky’s Botanical Garden, Gorenky, Russia, 1805-1822”
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Visualizing Interiority in the Eighteenth Century
Friday, 19 March 2010, 8:00-9:30, Alvarado C
Chairs: Catherine CLINGER AND Richard TAWS, McGill University
- Jennifer FERNG, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Mining, Modernism, and the Visual Culture of the Geological Landscape in Late Eighteenth Century France”
- David EHRENPREIS, James Madison University, “Inside the Mind’s Eye: Mesmer’s Imagination and Lavoisier’s Reason”
- Suzie PARK, Eastern Illinois University, “Adam Smith, William Gilpin, and Interiority in Ruins: Visualizing ‘what has befallen you’”
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Satire et censure de l’Ancien Régime au Consulat (French Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies)
Friday, 19 March 2010, 9:45-11:15, Alvarado A
Chair: Bernadette FORT, Northwestern University
- Melissa HYDE, University of Florida, “Needling: The Arts of Embroidery and Satire in the Hands of the Saint-Aubins”
- Brigitte WELTMAN-ARON, University of Florida, “Voltaire et Rousseau: courte satire, longue défense”
- Nanette LE COAT, Trinity University, “Les Censeurs censurés: Chamfort, Marat et l’Académie française”
- Julia DOUTHWAITE, University of Notre Dame, “Le Cimetière de la Madeleine et la censure sous le Consulat”
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Presidential Address, Awards, and Business Meeting
Friday, 19 March 2010, 2:30-4:00
Peter H. REILL, University of California, Los Angeles, “Vitalism and the Construction of the Human Sciences in the Enlightenment: Johann Gottfried Herder and Adam Smith”
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SATURDAY, 20 March 2010
Arboreal Values
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 8:00-9:30, Alvarado A
Chair: Elizabeth Heckendorn COOK, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Paula R. BACKSCHEIDER, Auburn University, “Disputed Value: Women and the Trees They Loved”
- Nicolle JORDAN, University of Southern Mississippi, “Writing on Trees in Jonson, Barker, and Defoe”
- Irene FIZER, Hofstra University, “The Residues She Leaves: Arboreal Constructs and the Woman ‘Out of Place’ in Sense and Sensibility”
- Giulia PACINI, The College of William and Mary, “How to Think Trees: Arboreal Values in the Eighteenth Century”
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Representations of the Fairies in Europe and its Colonies in the Long Eighteenth Century
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 8:00-9:30, Alvarado E
Chair: Charlotte TRINQUET, University of Central Florida
- Kevin PASK, Concordia University, “Fairy Painting, Fairy Theater”
- Sophie RAYNARD-LEROY, State University of New York, Stony Brook, “The Conteuse as a Fairy: The Example of Madame d’Aulnoy”
- Aurélie ZYGEL-BASSO, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, “‘Ceci n’est pas une fée’: the Representation of Fairies and Magicians in French and English Anthologies Illustration at the End of the Eighteenth Century (Clément-Pierre Marillier, Thomas Stothard)”
- Anne DUGGAN, Wayne University, “Ancient and Modern ‘Fairies’ in Donkey Skin and Lady Oscar”
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The House of Habsburg and Its Influence, Part I
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 9:45-11:15, Alvarado H
Chair: Michael YONAN, University of Missouri
- Katherine ARENS, University of Texas at Austin, “The Holy Roman Empire as a Missing Early Modern Culture”
- Rita KRUEGER, Temple University, “The Challenges of Imperial Mothering: Empress Maria Theresa and her People”
- Todd L. LARKIN, Montana State University, Bozeman, “The Lily and the Eagle: The Bourbon-Habsburg Alliance Emblematized by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun’s Marie-Antoinette in Ceremonial Dress (1778)”
- Madeline SUTHERLAND-MEIER, University of Texas at Austin, “The Spanish Habsburgs Viewed from the Eighteenth Century”
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The House of Habsburg and Its Influence, Part II
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 3:45-5:15, Alvarado E
Chair: Michael YONAN, University of Missouri
- Bruno FORMENT, Ghent University, Belgium, “Habsburg Opera under the ‘Belgian Climate’: Three Italian Seasons at the Théâtre de la Monnaie, 1727–1730″
- Erick ARENAS, Stanford University, “The Missa solemnis of Eighteenth-Century Vienna: A Study of Music, Liturgy, and the Habsburg Inheritance”
- Edmund J. GOEHRING, University of Western Ontario, “Mozart Among Austria’s Neoplatonists”
- Karen HILES, Muhlenberg College, “Collecting Music at the Hofburg: Haydn and the ‘Emperor’ Quartet amidst the Emperor’s Quartets”
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Forms of Attention, Forms of Distraction
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 3:45-5:15, Suite 318
Chair: Andrew BROUGHTON, University of Chicago
- Sarah KAREEM, University of California, Los Angeles, “Wonder, Attention, and Absorption”
- Matthew LANDERS, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, “Narration and Memory Theory in the Structure of Tristram Shandy: The Medical Aesthetics of Digression”
- Barbara BENEDICT, Trinity College, “Collecting Impressions: Antiquarianism and Attention to Detail in the Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century”
- Respondent: Natalie PHILLIPS, Stanford University
Sandby Conference in London
Paul Sandby and the Geographies of Eighteenth-Century Art
Paul Mellon Centre, London, 18-19 March 2010
Paul Sandby, "Roche Abbey, Yorkshire," c.1770s. Watercolour over graphite, 300 x 588 mm. Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photo © Royal Academy of Arts/Slingsby
This conference, to be held at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, will address issues arising from the exhibition Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain (Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, 25 July-18 October 2009; National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 7 November 2009-7 February 2010; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 13 March-13 June 2010). Organised by Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, this is the first exhibition to bring together drawings, paintings and prints by this important, if neglected, artist, spanning his long career, and from all the major public collections of his works. In addressing Sandby’s vast and versatile body of work, in its figurative as well as topographical aspects, the exhibition explores how the artist portrayed the character of landscape throughout Britain, and indeed contributed to envisioning the country as a nation state from the cementing of the Act of Union with Scotland, after the failure of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, to the wars with revolutionary and Napoleonic France at the century’s end. Through extensive tours, initially as a military draughtsman and then as a professional artist, Sandby pioneered the artistic depiction of landscape in Scotland and Wales, and searched out new sites throughout England. His art is arguably unrivalled among that of his contemporaries in its portrayal of the appearance and meaning of a range of subjects, rural and urban, modern and historical, in a country experiencing rapid social and commercial development.
Thursday 18 March, Royal Academy of Arts
6:30 Private view of the exhibition, Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain, led by John Bonehill (Curator of Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain and Lecturer in Art History, University of Glasgow), followed by a wine reception.
Friday 19 March, The Paul Mellon Centre
9:40 Welcome by Brian Allen (Director of Studies, The Paul Mellon Centre)
9:45 Morning Session introduced and chaired by Kim Sloan (Curator, Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum)
9:50 Keynote address by Bruce Robertson (Professor of Art History, University of California-Santa Barbara), “Paul Sandby: Father of English Watercolour?”
10:30 Timothy Wilcox (Independent Scholar), “‘Burying the Hatchet’: Paul Sandby at Luton Park”
11:40 Finola O’Kane (Lecturer in Architecture, University College Dublin), “’A Genuine Idea of the Face of the Kingdom’? Jonathan Fisher and Paul Sandby’s portrait of Ireland within the frame of Great Britain”
12:20 John Barrell (Professor of English, Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York), “A Common in Wales: Edward Pugh, the Pastoral, and Progress”
2:15 Afternoon session introduced and chaired by Shearer West (Director of Research, Arts and Humanities Research Council)
2:20 Gillian Forrester (Curator of Prints and Drawings, Yale Center for British Art), “‘No Joke Like a True Joke’? ‘Twelve London Cries done from the Life’”
3:00 Nick Grindle (Teaching Fellow, Department of Art History, University College London), “Living in London and Windsor: The Sandby Brothers’ Residences, c.1752-1809”
4:10 Carolyn Anderson (Ph.D. candidate, School of Geography, University of Edinburgh), “’The Art of Depicting with a Soldier’s Eye’: The Military Mapping of Eighteenth-Century Scotland”
4:50 Stephen Daniels (Professor of Cultural Geography, University of Nottingham), “‘Great Balls of Fire’: Representing the Remarkable Meteor of 18th August 1783”
5:30 Panel and audience discussion chaired by Sam Smiles (Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Plymouth)
6:15 Wine reception
Conference on the French Academy in Rome
Palazzo Mancini: L’Accademia di Francia a Roma nel Settecento
Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, 4-6 March 2010
Convegno internazionale a cura di Émilie Beck Saiello, Aude Henry-Gobet, Marc Bayard
Piranesi, "View of the Palazzo Mancini," etching, 1752 (Image from Wikimedia Commons)
Palazzo Mancini, palazzo e istituzione, luogo in cui si materializzano al tempo stesso dottrina e pratiche, fu la sede dell’Accademia di Francia a Roma dal 1725 al 1803. Fu anche un ambiente estremamente permeabile: luogo di passaggio, di scambi, di socializzazione, aperto su Roma, su Parigi e sull’Europa. L’Accademia s’interessava all’Antico, ma anche alle nuove creazioni, alla natura come alle produzioni artistiche. Istituzione ricca dunque, complessa e ricettiva, fu uno dei laboratori del XVIII secolo.
Questo convegno internazionale ha per oggetto lo studio del Palazzo e dell’istituzione che vi era ospitata all’epoca, il suo funzionamento, i suoi attori, le sue pratiche. Saranno presi in esame non soltanto l’attività degli artisti – pensionnaires e indipendenti – all’interno dell’Accademia (lavoro e visite d’atelier, viaggi di studio, …), ma anche la loro relazione con Roma (istituzioni, circoli, manifatture, atelier d’artisti, …) e con gli ambienti stranieri presenti in città (istituzioni e comunità straniere). Inoltre, sarà considerata la questione del mercato e del divenire delle opere, analizzando in particolare la collaborazione tra gli artisti francesi e l’ambiente romano, le relazioni tra essi e i viaggiatori del Grand Tour e i loro agenti. Sarà infine esaminata la diffusione delle loro opere in Francia e all’estero (esposizioni pubbliche, acquisizioni dello Stato e costituzione di collezioni private).
The conference brochure, complete with a list of speakers, is available here»
Print Culture and the American South
2010 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book:
The Global American South
& Early American Print Culture
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, 14- 18 June 2010
Applications due by 12 March 2010
What happens when we view the imagined community of U.S. print culture from the vantage point of the South? How might such a reoriented book history challenge emerging transatlantic, transnational, and cosmopolitan histories of the U.S.? At a moment when industrial print culture was consolidating itself in the Northeast, “the South” appeared in print on several spatial scales. While asserting an “American” identity, Southerners represented themselves as a sectional alternative to the nation. Boasting a distinctive regional culture, they simultaneously celebrated local diversity. The seminar will investigate how these complementary practices of national, regional, and local self-definition circuited through print cultural conditions on the ground. How, we will ask, did distribution, copyright, authorship, and reading inflect the South’s sectional self-fashioning, its attempt to lay claim to the nation, and its engagements with the wider world?
We can hear echoes of Southern print culture’s sectional and local accents in the American Antiquarian Society’s unsurpassed periodical holdings, which also allow us to track the printed South’s circulation, reception, and representation throughout the nation. The seminar will benefit from the AAS’ wealth of ephemeral print propaganda on the South’s major political crises: Indian removal, the slavery controversy, and nullification/secession. Finally, the seminar will provide an introduction to the Tinker Collection’s rich holdings in Francophone Louisiana materials-from legal ordinance digests to an original copy of Les Cenelles. (more…)
Abbey of Cluny after the Revolution
Probably of interest to those of you working on medievalism and the nineteenth century, but the eighteenth century still matters here all the same:
Constructions, reconstructions et commémorations clunisiennes, 1790-2010
Théâtre de Cluny, Ville de Cluny, 13-15 May 2010
A colloquium on the theme of the 1100th anniversary of the foundation of the Abbey of Cluny will take place, consisting of papers by specialists on the abbey’s history. Along with the program provided below, more information can be found at the conference website.
THURSDAY, 13 May 2010
2:00 – 6:30, Restaurations et commémorations, 1790-2010
- Jean-Luc Delpeuch (Mairie de Cluny), Accueil des participants.
- Didier Méhu (Université Laval, Québec), Pourquoi (ne pas) commémorer ?
- Dominique Iogna-Prat (CNRS, Paris / Auxerre), Commémorations clunisiennes, 1910-2010.
- Yann Potin (Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne), La destruction de l’abbaye de Cluny ou la puissance du vide, 1790-1825.
- Alain Rauwel (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon), Une tentative de restauration monastique à Cluny au XIXe siècle : Dom Mayeul Lamey.
FRIDAY, 14 May 2010
9:30 – 1:00, Cluny et la construction du discours scientifique aux XIXe et XXe siècles
- Isabelle Vernus (Archives départementales de Saône-et-Loire, Mâcon), Les monumenta clunisiens : le sort des archives de Cluny.
- Alain Guerreau (CNRS, Paris), Les recherches sur Cluny au XXe siècle : la balkanisation et ses conséquences.
- Daniel Russo (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon), Cluny dans l’histoire de l’art français d’Émile Mâle à Henri Focillon.
- Kathryn Brush (London, Ontario, University of Western Ontario), Arthur Kingsley Porter et la genèse de sa vision de Cluny.
2:45 – 7:00, Reconstructions émotionnelles et littéraires
- Janet Marquardt (Charleston, Illinois, Eastern Illinois University), Du martyr au monument : les reconstructions romantiques.
- Nicolas Reveyron (Université Lumière – Lyon II, Institut universitaire de France), François Cucherat, l’autre fils de Semur.
- Laurent Baridon (Université Pierre Mendès-France – Grenoble II) et Didier Méhu (Université Laval, Québec), Viollet-le-Duc et Cluny.
- Elizabeth Emery (Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair State University), Cluny dans la littérature française du XIXe siècle.
- François Amy de la Bretèque (Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier III), Chronique d’une absence : Cluny, les moines et le cinéma.
SATURDAY, 15 May 2010
9:30 – 1:00, Reconstructions et présentations contemporaines
- Frédéric Didier (Monuments historiques, Paris), Les enjeux des restaurations et reconstructions monumentales de l’abbaye de Cluny.
- Guillaume Schotté et Jean-François Coulais (ENSAM, Cluny), Les enjeux des reconstitutions virtuelles de l’église abbatiale, de la ville et de l’environnement urbain de Cluny.
- Table ronde conclusive: Commémoration, patrimoine et histoire.
Anthony Gerbino Speaks on Drawing
In conjunction with the exhibition opening in New Haven this week, Compass and Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England, 1500-1750, the YCBA will host the following lecture on Wednesday, 24 February 2010 at 5:30pm:
Anthony Gerbino (architectural historian, Worcester College, University of Oxford)
The Paper Revolution: Drawing in English Architectural Practice 1500-1750
Call for Papers: David Hume Conference in 2011
38th International Hume Society Conference: Hume after 300 Years
The Old College, Edinburgh, 18-23 July 2011
Proposals due by 31 October 2010
Keynote speakers include Annette Baier, David Fergusson, Don Garrett, John Pocock, and Amartya Sen. Papers are invited on any aspect of Hume studies. Papers should be prepared for blind review and sent to: submissions@humesociety.org.
This year’s conference will be held in Antwerp, 6-10 July 2010. See the Hume Society webpage for more information.
Music and the History of Art
La musique face au système des Beaux-Arts ou les vicissitudes de l’imitation (1690-1803)
Paris, Organisé par le Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art et l’INHA, 17-19 February 2010
Si les littératures artistiques et musicales sont le plus souvent étudiées distinctement et différemment par l’historien de l’art, l’historien des idées et le musicologue, ce colloque propose de les réunir et de les apprécier dans une double perspective, sciemment pluridisciplinaire : rétablir d’une part l’esprit de système qui oriente bien souvent la pensée artistique du XVIIIe siècle, et éclairer d’autre part, à côté de la théorie de l’ut pictura poesis, l’existence d’un autre parti pris de la littérature artistique des Lumières : la possibilité de déduire, du phénomène musical, une théorie des arts au sens large.
For details, including a full program, click here»
You’re Invited . . .
Please join us for the HECAA reception at CAA, Thursday February 12, 5:30-7:00 pm, Ogden West Tower, Silver Level. If you plan on attending, please let me know so I can provide a rough head count for the Hyatt reception service. And don’t forget our HECAA sessions!
New Scholars: Transforming Traditions in Eighteenth-Century Art
Thursday, February ll, 12:30-2:00 pm
Grand CD South, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Laura Auricchio, Parsons The New School for Design
Representing the Psyche in Eighteenth-Century Art
Thursday, February 11, 2:30-5:00 pm
Grand A, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Michael Yonan, University of Missouri, Columbia
See you there!
Dr. Julie-Anne Plax
HECAA President
jplax@email.arizona.edu (R.S.V.P.)
One More Thing for the Chicago Itinerary
Sites to Behold: Travels in Eighteenth-Century Rome
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 3 November 2009 — 11 April 2010
Curated by Anne Leonard
Jean-Baptiste Lallemand, "View of Rome: The Tiber River with the Castel Sant’Angelo and St. Peter’s Basilica in the Distance," n.d., Gouache on paper. Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Gift of Lucia Woods Lindley, 2006.96.
Rome has long been a leading tourist destination. Many of the “must-see” sites were codified centuries ago as part of the Grand Tour, a journey undertaken by young aristocrats to complete their education and give them experience of the world. But by the late eighteenth century, the once-exclusive Grand Tour was giving way to more modern, democratic notions of travel. No longer the preserve of a privileged elite, travel to Italy and other places came within the reach of a wider public, who were eager for tangible souvenirs of what they saw and experienced. This exhibition presents etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, gouache drawings by Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Lallemand, and other works depicting Rome and nearby Tivoli. These eighteenth-century artists, with their different temperaments, techniques, and styles, produced a breathtaking variety of art. A far cry from the monotony of the picture-postcard aesthetic, the works on view appealed to a wide array of tastes and allowed travelers of the period to marvel at the splendor and ruin of an ancient world long after they returned home.
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Right about now, those of you attending CAA in Chicago are probably beginning to cringe at just how tight your schedule already looks. But in the event you can find a few hours to get away from the conference hotel, I would whole-heartedly recommend a morning or afternoon in Hyde Park. In addition to this exhibition at the Smart Museum, the campus of the University of Chicago offers the Oriental Institute Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House, and the Renaissance Society (for ancient, modern, and contemporary aesthetic experiences). The Renaissance Society is currently showing the photographs of Anna Shteynshleyger. No visit is complete without a stop at the Seminary Co-Op Bookstore (one of the best academic bookstores in the world), and La petite folie makes for a lovely quiet lunch or dinner. Hyde Park is easily reached via the Metra commuter train system, available just a few blocks from the Hyatt at Millennium Station. –C.H.
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