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2018

Global Perspectives on Surrealism

Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Krzysztof Fijalkowski (Norwich University of the Arts) Matthew Gale (Tate) Jennifer Mundy (Tate) Gavin Parkinson (Courtauld Institute of Art) Session Abstract One of the most revolutionary and popular cultural movements of the 20th century, surrealism... Read More...

HIV in Visual Culture: Looking to interdisciplinary approaches and global histories

Day: Thursday 5 April Convenors Jackson Davidow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Neil Macdonald (The University of Manchester) Session Abstract The past ten years have witnessed a renewed interest in histories of HIV/AIDS in the art world and academy, as seen... Read More...

In/visibility and Influence: The impact of women artists and their work

Day: Thursday 5 April Convenors Helen Draper (Institute of Historical Research, University of London) Carol Jacobi (Tate) Session Abstract The assumption that ‘influence’ is something that can be traced backwards (or even forwards, as Baxandall argued in Patterns of Intention) is... Read More...

Interdisciplinary Entanglements: Towards a ‘visual medical humanities’

Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Fiona Johnstone (Middlesex University) Natasha Ruiz-Gómez (University of Essex) Roundtable Discussion Visual culture (including art history, fine art, and museum studies) is currently a marginal discipline within the medical humanities. This may be changing, with... Read More...

Just Looking? Art, pedagogy & the object lesson in the long 19th century

Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Elena Chestnova (Università della Svizzera Italiana) Andrea Korda (University of Albert) Session Abstract The popularity of object lessons in the 19th century attests to the fact that looking at things was not taken for granted... Read More...

Lesbian Constellations: Feminism’s queer art histories

Day: Saturday 7 April Convenors Catherine Grant (Goldsmiths, University of London) Laura Guy (University of Edinburgh) Session Abstract ‘What is a lesbian? A lesbian is the rage of all women condensed to the point of explosion.’ –The Woman-Identified Woman Manifesto,... Read More...

Look out! The Comintern’s about! Rereading 20th-century globalisation before 1939

Day: Saturday 7 April Convenors Sarah Wilson (Courtauld Institute of Art) Konstantin Akinsha Session Abstract The first global cultural programme was the USSR’s propaganda drive in cities from Mexico to Shanghai, coopting intellectuals globally (Lenin’s ‘useful idiots’) and functioning quite... Read More...

Looking Out and In: Reflecting, remaking and reimagining historical interiors from contemporary viewpoints

Day: Saturday 7 April Convenors Helen McCormack (Glasgow School of Art) Anne Nellis Richter Jennifer Gray (Edinburgh College of Art) Session Abstract Recent research on the history of the domestic interior has highlighted the significance of meanings embedded in the... Read More...

Medieval Eurabia: Religious crosspollinations in architecture, art and material culture during the High and Late Middle Ages (1000–1600)

Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Sami Luigi de Giosa (Oxford University) Nikolaos Vryzidis (British School at Athens) Session Abstract The coexistence of Christianity and Islam in the Medieval Mediterranean led to a transfer of knowledge in architecture and material culture... Read More...

Pop Art and Design

Day: Saturday 7 April Conveors Anne Massey (Regents University London) Alex Seago (Richmond, the American International University in London) Session Abstract This session takes as its subject the phenomenon of pop art and looks outwards from this genre in two ways.... Read More...

Remembering and Forgetting the Enlightenment

Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Hans Christian Hönes (The Warburg Institute) Daniel Orrells (King’s College London, Department of Classics) Session Abstract Art history is often considered a child of the Enlightenment: its methodological roots – aesthetics and historicism – are... Read More...

Seeing and Hearing the ‘Beyond’: Art, music, and mysticism in the long 19th century

Day: Saturday 7 April Convenors Michelle Foot (University of Edinburgh) Corrinne Chong (Art Gallery of Ontario) Session Abstract This interdisciplinary session explores the dialogue between art and music in addressing the subject of mysticism in the long 19th century (1789–1918).... Read More...

Soundscapes: New challenges, new horizons

Day: Thursday 5 April Convenors Margit Thøfner (University of East Anglia) Tim Shephard (Sheffield University) Session Abstract There is a long and fruitful scholarly tradition of exploring the relationships between art and music. Amongst other things, the study of both... Read More...

Speaking Out: Siting the voice in contemporary Asian art

Day: Saturday 7 April Convenors Pamela Corey (SOAS University of London) Wenny Teo (Courtauld Institute of Art) Session Abstract Voice is frequently evoked as a metaphor for agency in narratives of contemporary art in Asia, pitched against authoritarian control over... Read More...

Textility

Day: Thursday 5 April Convenors Mechthild Fend (UCL History of Art) Anne Lafont (Directrice d’études, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (EHESS) Session Abstract Technologies associated with textile production – such as weaving, knitting, spinning, embroidering or dyeing... Read More...

The National in Discourses of Sculpture in the Long Modern Period (c. 1750–1950)

Day: Thursday 5 April Convenors Tomas Macsotay (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) Roberto C Ferrari (Columbia University, New York) Session Abstract Are specific histories of national ‘schools’ of sculpture premised by the codifying of national identities? What role has been reserved... Read More...

The Politics and Aesthetics of Error

Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Martin Lang (University of Lincoln) Tom Grimwood (University of Cumbria) Session Abstract Responding to the election of George W Bush, the ‘war on terror’ and subsequent domestic anti-terror legislation, art activists declared that we were... Read More...

The Weaver’s Workshop: Materiality, craft and efficacies in the art of tapestry

Day: Saturday 7 April Convenors Katja Schmitz-von Ledebur (Kaiserliche Schatzkammer Wien) Isabella Woldt (Bilderfahrzeuge-Project, The Warburg Institute, University of London) Session Abstract Tapestry is a complex and expensive medium. From the Middle Ages, production of tapestry incorporated precious stuffs, including... Read More...

Towards an Aesthetics of Geology in the Age of Anthropocene

Day: Saturday 7 April Convenors Maud Maffei (Independent) Riccardo Venturi (Gerda Henkel Stiftung) Session Abstract Geology has been a topic of interest and attraction for artists, at least since JMW Turner’s ‘geological sublime’, as it was famously put forward by... Read More...

2018 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Association for Art History's Annual Conference Courtauld Institute of Art & King’s College London 5 – 7 April 2018, London Our 2018 Annual Conference for art history and visual culture was co-hosted by the Courtauld Institute of Art and King’s... Read More...
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