21st June 2018
Session Convenors Lucia Farinati, Kingston University, London Jennifer Thatcher, University of Edinburgh Session Abstract There is no history of the artist interview as a critical genre in its own right. Rather, it has been underplayed as a journalistic tool, or... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenors Erin Hyde Nolan, Maine College of Art Sophie Junge, University of Zurich Session Abstract In the second half of the 19th century, photographic processes and the popularity of landscape representations evolved simultaneously. It is, therefore, not surprising that... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenors Sally-Anne Huxtable National Museums Scotland Robyne Calvert The Glasgow School of Art Session Abstract Inspired by the repeated deployment of designers and architects such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Carlo Bugatti in in science fiction... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenors Suzannah Victoria Beatrice Henty, University of Melbourne Maria Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences, Paris Kyveli Lignou-Tsamantani, University of York Session Abstract The accelerated pace of life, along with rapid technological transformations, are often experienced as... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenor Edward Bacal, University of Toronto Session Abstract The experience of sexuality – including erotic sensation, desire, fantasy, and companionship – is traditionally understood as something interior. Conventional knowledge locates sexuality inside the subject’s phenomenological horizon, the body’s physical... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenors Jean Baird Nottingham Trent School of Art & Design Jonathan P Watts Independent Scholar Session Abstract Three years ago, in an article titled ‘The World’s Most Amazing 100% Awesome Photography Theory’, published in the journal Photographies, the academic... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenors Catriona Murray, University of Edinburgh Halle O’Neal, University of Edinburgh Session Abstract In the medieval and early modern worlds, ritual served as a legitimising process, a dynamic mechanism for mediating a transference or transformation of status. Objects played... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenors Martina Droth, Yale Center for British Art Sarah Victoria Turner, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Session Abstract Is public sculpture part of the ‘expanded field’? In its forms, public sculpture is largely governed by persistent... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenor Briley Rasmussen, University of Florida Session Abstract While art histories have increasingly taken account of the dynamics of play and participation in art of the 1960s, the impact of pedagogical thought and theory on the artistic production and... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenors Michelle Foot, University of Edinburgh Lucy Weir, University of Edinburgh Session Abstract The occult – the hidden – has been prevalent in various art forms for centuries. Christopher Partridge coined the term ‘occulture’ in 2004 in an effort... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenors Paisid Aramphongphan, De Montfort University Hyewon Yoon, University of New Hampshire Session Abstract This session will examine the intersections of body culture and visual culture across time, encompassing notation, performance and experimental scores, photographic documentation, film, and other... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenors Molly Duggins, National Art School, Sydney Freya Gowrley, University of Edinburgh Session Abstract Marcel Duchamp’s series of ‘readymades’, particularly the infamous Fountain of 1917, are often viewed as heralding a watershed moment in the history of art. Produced... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenor Catherine Jolivette, Missouri State University Session Abstract What is landscape? The visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal? A picture representing an area of countryside? The genre of landscape painting?... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenors Joanne Crawford, University of Leeds Sarah Kate Wilson, Artist Session Abstract Whilst the proliferation of media and alternative spaces of/for art has allowed sculpture to become an important player within the ‘expanded field’, it seems that painting remains... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenor Samuel Bibby, Association for Art History Session Abstract ‘A Museum of Language in the Vicinity of Art’, Robert Smithson’s well-known intervention from 1968, sought to align the contemporary practice of artists’ writings with the production of art itself.... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenors Elizabeth Buhe, Fordham University Amy Rahn, Stony Brook University (SUNY) Session Abstract Eidetic imagery – vivid pictures seen ‘in the mind’s eye’ – has been a powerful and ongoing source of artistic inspiration. Yet, modernist privileging of disembodied... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenors Elizabeth Johnson, Birkbeck College Rebecca Wade, Leeds Museums and Galleries Session Abstract Recent advances in digital 3D technology have opened up new and exciting possibilities for both artists and art historians, from 3D printed artworks to the use... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenor Tilo Reifenstein, York St John University Session Abstract Jaś Elsner’s description of art-historical writing as ekphrasis plants the practice firmly in the purview of poetry, literature or fiction, though be it, in his words, ‘fiction with footnotes’. A... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenors Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth, Visiting Lecturer, V&A/RCA Anne Anderson, V&A Course Director and Tutor Rachel Gotlieb, Gardiner Museum, Toronto Session Abstract This session examines the current scholarly field of ceramics in the long 19th century. It seeks to explore alternative... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenors Annebella Pollen, University of Brighton Louise Purbrick, University of Brighton Session Abstract From Pussy Hats on Women’s Marches to all-black attire at awards ceremonies for the Time’s Up campaign, the use of dress as a form of ‘non-verbal... Read More...Copyright 2026. All Rights Reserved