Enfilade

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»

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.)

The Eighteenth-Century Seminar at the Newberry Library is designed to foster research and inquiry across the scholarly disciplines. It aims to provide a methodologically diverse forum for work that engages our ongoing discussions and debates along this historical and critical terrain. The spring program includes the following presentations:

Saturday, 6 March 2010, 2-4 pm
Bernadette Fort (Northwestern University)
“Female Royalty and Women Painters in the Late Ancien Régime”

Focusing on reviews of the exhibitions of the Royal Academy in the late 1780s and in particular on portraits of female royal figures by E. Vigée Le Brun and A. Labille-Guiard, this talk examines the intersection of gender, aesthetics, and politics in the cultural realm on the eve of the French Revolution. It argues that art criticism of the period represents an important discursive site in which the issue of female representation in the political and visual fields was fiercely debated.

Saturday, 17 April 2010, 2-4 pm
Misty Anderson (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
“Methodistical Sisters and The New Man: Fielding Among the Methodists”

The tabloid-ready tale of “Mrs. Mary, otherwise Mr. George Hamilton,” who married several women while passing as a man, appeared in Boddley’s Bath Journal of November 8, 1746, and in a slew of London and regional newspapers shortly thereafter. This work-in-progress paper examines Henry Fielding’s use of Methodism in The Female Husband to explain the origin of Hamilton’s same sex desire. Instead of standing in the place of religious law, Methodism (to its critics) functioned as a sexuality, a set of practices that excited and transformed the individual into the “new man” through an experience of divine intimacy. Focusing on the Hamilton case, this talk considers the relationship between evangelicalism and gender scripts as they were written into mid-eighteenth century discourses of sex and spirituality.

Attendance at all events is free and open to the public, but participants are asked to register in advance by contacting the Center for Renaissance Studies at: renaissance@newberry.org. A reception will follow each presentation.

Seminar on the History of Libraries
University of London, Senate House, Room G37, Malet St WC1E 7HU, 2 February 2010, 5:30pm

The next seminar in this series held in London will take place on Tuesday February 2 in the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Paul Quarrie (Maggs Bros. Ltd.) will speak on “An Intellectual Library: The Library Built up between c. 1700 and 1750 by the Earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle.”

Paul Quarrie has been intimately involved in the discovery and documentation of this library since the mid-1990s, and since 2004 in its sad dispersal. He will discuss the nature, growth and composition of this remarkable library, and some of the figures involved in this.

The meeting will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Room G 37, Senate House, Malet St., London WC1E 7HU, UK. All are welcome.

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E. Henry Nicholls provides an introduction to the circumstances surrounding the sale of the Macclesfield library in an article from Endeavour 29 (March 2005), available here.

OTHER SESSIONS RELATED TO THE 18TH CENTURY

THURSDAY, 11 February 2010

Early Modern Globalization (1400-1700)
Chairs: Angela Vanhaelen (McGill University) and Bronwen Wilson (University of British Columbia)
Thursday, February 11, 9:30-noon, Grand EF, Gold Level, East Tower

1. Susan Wight Swanson (University of Minnesota), “Cannibal Complexities: Metaphors of Incorporation and Early Modern Globalization”
2. Sean Roberts (University of Southern California), “Globalism, Economy, and Early Modern Print”
3. Emine Fetvaci (Boston University) “From Elogia to Physiognomy: Complicating Early Modern Globalization”
4. Stacey Sloboda (Southern Illinois University), “Made in China? Networks of Exchange in Ming Dynasty Porcelain”
5. Claudia Swan (Northwestern University), “Exoticism at Work: Dutch Culture in a Global Context (1600-50)”

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British Art: Survey and Field in the Context of Glocalization (Historians of British Art)
Chair: Colette Crossman
Thursday, February 11, 8:00-10:30pm, Grand B, Gold Level, East Tower

1. David Bindman, “British Art and the Uncertainties of Britishness”
2. Sara N. James (Mary Baldwin College), “Art on the Margins: The Paradoxical Canon of Early British Art”
3. Andrea Wolk Rager (Yale Center for British Art), “1870-1910: The Lost Decades of British Artistic Modernity”
4. Alice Correia (University of Sussex and Gimpel Fils), “Zarina Bhimji: Broadening Definitions of Britishness?”
5. Neil Mulholland (Edinburgh College of Art), “Neomedieval Art after Britain”
6. Discussant: Jennifer Way (University of North Texas)

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FRIDAY, 12 February 2010

HBA Business Meeting and Young Scholars’ Session (HBA)
Friday, February 12, 7:30-9:00am: Grand B, Gold Level, East Tower

1. Georgina Cole (PhD candidate, University of Sydney), “Doors, Charity, and Genre: A New Reading of Thomas Gainsborough’s Charity Relieving Distress“
2. Stassa Edwards (PhD candidate, Florida State University), ‘“Almost Sure to Mislead’: Oscar Rejlander, Charles Darwin and the Photography of Performance”
3. Scott Gleeson (MA recipient, Southern Methodist University), “Viewing Belfast: Community Practice in a Divided City”

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Eighteenth-Century European Art
Chair: Nina Dubin (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Friday, February 12, 9:30-noon, Grand A, Gold Level, East Tower

1. Amy Freund (Texas Christian University), “Pray, Sir, Whose Dog Are You? Nobility and Animality in Eighteenth-Century French Hunting Pictures”
2. Rachel Lindheim (Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, City University of New York), “Sensibilite and Sociability: Antoine-Jean Gros’s Embodied Classicism”
3. Mimi Hellman (Skidmore College), “Understanding Overdoors”
4. Andrei Pop (Harvard University), ‘“Temples Became Theatres’: Henry Fuseli and the Cultural Politics of Antiquity, 1760-1800″
5. Mark Ledbury (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute), “Not Being David: Eccentric History Painters of the D’Angiviller Generation”

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War Stories: Violence and Narrative in Early Modern Europe
Chairs: Elizabeth Alice Honig (University of California, Berkeley) and Suzanne Walker (Tulane University)
Friday, February 12, 2:30-5:00, Grand CD, Gold Level, East Tower

1. Christiane Andersson (Bucknell University), “Mercenary Warfare: Political and Satirical Narratives by Urs Graf ca. 1515-25”
2. Vanessa Lyon (University of California, Berkeley), “Velazquez Breaking Breda: Typology as Ante-Narrative”
3. Luke Nicholson (Concordia University), “Nicolas Poussin’s The Plague at Ashdod: Narrating Unconventional Warfare”
4. Douglas Fordham (University of Virginia), “Symbol and Allegory in the Many Deaths of General Wolfe”
5. Discussant: James Clifton (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)

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SATURDAY, 13 February

The Materiality of Early Modern Prints, Part II: Plates, States, and Collections
Chairs: Suzanne Karr Schmidt (Art Institute of Chicago) and Lia Markey (Princeton University Art Museum).
Saturday, February 13, 9:30-noon, Water Tower, Bronze Level, West Tower

1. Madeleine Viljoen (La Salle University Art Museum), “Prints and Precious Plates”
2. Amy Frederick (University of Louisville), “Print, Interrupted: Tracing Rembrandt’s Etched Sketches”
3. Audrey Adamczak (University of Paris-Sorbonne), “From Copper to Satin: Engraved Portraits Printed on Silk in Seventeenth-Century France and Their Preservation”
4. Alessandra Baroni (University of Siena), “Examining Physical Evidence for the Medici Print Collection”
5. Kristel Smentek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Improvising Art History: Three Eighteenth-Century Albums of Prints”

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Art Scandals and Scandalous Art in the Eighteenth Century (ASECS)
Chairs: Mark Ledbury (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute) and Angela Rosenthal (Dartmouth College)
Saturday, February 13, 12:30-2:00, Regency C, Gold Level, West Tower

1. Melissa Hyde (University of Florida), “‘Quoi! c’est moi la?’ Wertmuller’s Portrait of Marie-Antoinette and Her Children”
2. Bernadette Fort (Northwestern University), “Spreading Scandal: The Defamation of Women Artists in Pre-Revolutionary France”
3. Laura Auricchio (Parsons the New School for Design), “Sex, Lies, and Caricature: Scandalizing Lafayette in the French Revolution”

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Aesthetic Culture in British India: The Amateur Arts of Brush, Pencil, and Camera in the Colonial Periphery (HBA)
Chair: Renate Dohmen (University of Louisiana, Lafayette)
Saturday, February 13, 12:30-2:00, Gold Coast, Bronze Level, West Tower

1. Meredith Gamer (Yale University) “Bringing India to the British: The Making and Marketing of British India, 1770-1800”
2. Beth Tobin (Arizona State University), “Sketchbooks and Scrapbooks: Aesthetic Collecting Practices in British India, 1770-1840”
3. Gary Sampson (Cleveland Institute of Art), “Samuel Bourne and the Amateur Divide in Photography under the Raj”

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Pictures That Pack a Punch: Violence in American Art, 1780-1917
Chairs: Ross Barrett (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Kevin R. Muller (Chabot College)
Saturday, February 13, 2:30-5:00, Regency D, Gold Level, West Tower

1. Wendy Bellion (University of Delaware), “The Space of Iconoclasm: New York, 1776”
2. Kenneth Haltman (University of Oklahoma), “Managing Death in Antebellum Representations of the Hunt”
3. Maura Lyons (Drake University), “Wounded Trees: The Traumatic Landscape of Civil War Photography”
4. Carol Troyen (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), “George Bellows and the Great War”
5. Hannah Wong (University of Texas, Austin), “Females under Fire: Depictions of Women and Violence in Francis Picabia’s Violà elle and Other New York Work”

From the website of the Paul Mellon Centre:

Antiquity at Home
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and The British Museum, London, 28-29 January 2010

Thursday, 28 January, BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum

• 6:30   Keynote lecture by David Watkin (Professor Emeritus in the History of Architecture, Department of Art History, University of Cambridge), “From Antiquity to Enlightenment: The Origins of the British Museum” — In this wide-ranging lecture, beginning with galleries and museums in the ancient world, Professor Watkin will locate the Enlightenment  origins of the British Museum in the pioneering collections of the English seventeenth-century. The Strand palaces of London are now largely forgotten but were once a prominent feature of the Thames shoreline.  These royal and aristocratic houses vied with one another in flaunting their taste for art and antiquity, acquired in Rome and along the coast of the eastern Aegean, in public displays of ‘vertu’. Against such a backdrop the British Museum first opened its doors in Montagu House doors in 1759, just over 250 years ago.

Friday, 29 January, The Paul Mellon Centre, 16 Bedford Square

• 9:40   Welcome by Brian Allen (Director of Studies, the Paul Mellon Centre)
• 9:45   Tribute to Ilaria Bignamini by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (Master of Sydney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, former Director of the British School at Rome)

Morning Session: ‘Objects’

• 9:55   Introduced and chaired by Kim Sloan (Curator of British Drawings and Watercolours before 1800, Francis Finlay Curator of the Enlightenment Gallery, British Museum)
• 10:00   Ian Jenkins (Senior Curator, Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum), “The Townley Discobolus”
• 10:20   Elizabeth Angelicoussis (Independent Researcher), “The Hope Dionysus”
• 10:40   Eloisa Dodero (Dipartimento di Discipline Storiche “Ettore Lepore”, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”), “Clytie before Townley: The Gaetani d’Aragona Collection of Sculptures and Its Neapolitan Context”
• 11:00   Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui Alpañés (Senior Research Fellow, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art), “Sculptures onboard The Westmorland: A Cross-section of Grand Tour Collecting”
• 11:20   Coffee
• 11:50   Jonathan Yarker (PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge, research assistant for Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Rome), “The ‘Paper Museum’ of Charles Townley”
• 12:10   Thorsten Opper (Curator of Greek and Roman Sculpture, Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum), “Lyde Browne – The House Museum as Sales Room”
• 12:30   Lunch

Afternoon Session: ‘Collections’

• 2:00   Introduced and chaired by Edward Chaney (Professor of Fine and Decorative Arts and Chair of the History of Collecting Research Centre, Southampton Solent University)
• 2:05   Jason Kelly (Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis), “The Society of Dilettanti and the Planning of a Museum”
• 2:25   Anna Seidel (PhD Candidate, Humboldt University Berlin), “Display and Dispersal of the Montalto-Negroni Marbles”
• 2:45   Adriano Aymonino (University of Venice Ca’ Foscari), “A Roman Columbarium on the River Thames: The Long Gallery at Syon House”
• 3:05   Ruth Guilding (Art Historian and Curator), “Sir Richard Worsley, Connoisseur of the Parthenon”
• 3:25   Tea
• 3:55   Clare Hornsby (Research Fellow, British School at Rome, co-author of Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Rome), “Collecting or Accumulation? Some Thoughts on Motivation”
• 4:15   Tim Knox (Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum), “Soane and the Antique, and Some Reflections on House Museums Then and Now”
• 4:35   Panel and audience discussion chaired by Frank Salmon (Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge, and Lecturer in the History of Art, University of Cambridge)
• 5:30   Wine Reception

The Arts and Sciences in 17th- and 18th-Century Naples: Discovering the Past, Inventing the Future
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 26-27 February 2010

Organized by John A. Marino (UC San Diego)

In the past year Melissa Calaresu (University of Cambridge) and Helen Hills (University of York) organized three workshops in England on Exoticizing Vesuvius? Formations of Naples circa 1500–Present that explored Neapolitan historiography, topography and piety, and collecting. The aims of the workshops were “to critically examine the principal historiographical currents that have operated and that continue to operate within scholarship on Naples, particularly in relation to visual and literary representations of Naples from circa 1500 to the present” and “to encourage the rethinking of Neapolitan history across chronological and disciplinary divides; to resist reinscribing Neapolitan cultural history into the familiar and over-worn paradigms of modernity and nationhood (the failure of the south), the Grand Tour (as seen from northern Europe, especially aristocratic Britain), periodization that serves to draw an apparently unbridgeable gulf between the early modern period and the nineteenth century.”

This conference on The Arts and Sciences in Naples: Discovering the Past, Inventing the Future continues this rethinking of early modern Naples from the theory and practice of representation and knowledge as it developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Topics will focus on the disciplines and practices of the arts and sciences—their origins, development, and contributions—within Naples itself during this period. Topics include the practice and institutions in Naples of the arts (painting, architecture, music, vernacular literature), the social sciences (ethnography, political economy), the natural sciences, and the art of cooking and entertaining. (more…)