10th December 2024
Since the 1990s, museums have made significant strides ensuring that their buildings are accessible to visitors with physical disabilities. Yet despite this progress, many museums continue to display artworks within an ocularcentric setting that remains inaccessible to disabled spectators. Equally... Read More...10th December 2024
This session reexamines abstraction as a site of intersections and dissonances between modes of making, focused especially on those between the fine arts and so-called craft or artisanal practices. In particular, we aim to interrogate how and why abstraction functions... Read More...10th December 2024
The history of art, whether in antiquity or the present, is haunted by losses. The number of cultural and artistic artefacts that have not survived conflicts, environmental disasters and physiological decay is much greater than those still preserved today. What... Read More...10th December 2024
The boundaries between art and fashion have blurred. Fashion objects are increasingly celebrated in museums, fashion has grown in prominence in art schools, designers are described as artists, and increasing numbers of fashion designers are transitioning mid-career into fine art... Read More...10th December 2024
When Raphael sent him some nude studies in 1515, Dürer noted the significance of these drawings. John Ruskin, in his lecture ‘The Relation of Art to Morals’ (1870), invokes and translates Dürer’s comments, adding his own emphasis: ‘These figures, [Dürer]... Read More...10th December 2024
This panel seeks critical approaches to sculpture (broadly conceived to include objects, installations, environments, and architectural-based work) through different modalities of encounter, that is, how observers engage with art in ways conventional art historical narratives of autonomy, interpretation, and beholding... Read More...10th December 2024
The translation of visual and material phenomena into verbal form is usually framed as the central challenge of art historical method. Yet this translation often takes place alongside visual forms of description, quantification, and analysis. Models, didactic drawings, graphs, tables, reconstructions: such... Read More...10th December 2024
For decades, the state of self-reflection about English or British identity and cultural values had not reached such heights as it did during the Brexit referendum, reinforcing a feeling of national belonging in an entire nation. This provides the occasion... Read More...10th December 2024
The supposed revolution within both art making and its reception which was marked in the 1960s internationally can be thought of as a move away from the understanding of the artwork as autonomous; away from the idea that the artwork... Read More...10th December 2024
Interest in German modernism has seen a resurgence in the UK, with exhibitions such as Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider at Tate Modern and Making Modernism at the Royal Academy. This has offered opportunities to reconsider perspectives and... Read More...10th December 2024
According to the official state socialist ideology, racism did not exist in socialist Eastern Europe. ‘Race [was] elsewhere’ (Alamgir 2013), in the capitalist West. Socialist international cooperation included worker and student mobility exchanges (from Vietnam, Cuba, Latin America, Africa, and... Read More...10th December 2024
The built environment of the art school is undergoing a period of transformation; with a shift towards interdisciplinary environments, mass investment in new buildings, and a widespread adoption of virtual or hybrid learning platforms. These environments can be understood as... Read More...10th December 2024
This panel responds to Ina Linge’s recent work on ‘queer livability’ to consider the arts of trans livability from the late Victorian to interwar period. We are interested in exploring ways in which trans opulence is forged in the detritus... Read More...10th December 2024
Text in art has had a significant impact throughout history, from antiquity and the middle ages to the modern and contemporary eras. Its significance in artistic expression has been particularly emphasised since the 20th century, evident in movements such as... Read More...10th December 2024
The history of Chinese art is rich and multifaceted, yet the contributions of women artists and art historians have often been overshadowed or neglected. Although women were actively engaged in Chinese art, from ancient times through the dynastic periods to the... Read More...10th December 2024
Traditionally in Art History, the study of Material Culture and Decorative Arts has been relegated to a subordinate role. Only more recently, objects and their materiality have received more rigorous attention: from Smith’s interdisciplinary project ‘Making and Knowing’ to work... Read More...10th December 2024
This panel aims to gather scholars, artists, curators and activists to shed fresh light on researching, archiving, exhibiting and disseminating feminist photography, provoking reassessment and revalidation of feminist social documentary work since the 1970s in its local, transnational and global... Read More...10th December 2024
María Puig de la Bellacasa, Dimitris Papadopoulos and Natasha Myers have recently explored “elemental thought” as a way to think about the elements, meaning both the elements of ancient philosophies of nature – earth, air, fire, water – and the... Read More...10th December 2024
Artists are often seen at the forefront of innovation in using emerging technologies as they seek to reflect on society and disrupt established norms, from the early experiments of Nam June Paik’s video art in the 1960s to the contemporary... Read More...10th December 2024
These sessions explore the experience of spatial environments as an art historical question. Experience is multivalent, subjective, and above all ephemeral. Our experience of the built environment, designed landscapes and the world at large is highly mediated and contingent, connected... Read More...Copyright 2025. All Rights Reserved