22nd December 2017
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...22nd December 2017
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...22nd December 2017
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...22nd December 2017
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...22nd December 2017
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...22nd December 2017
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...22nd December 2017
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...22nd December 2017
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...22nd December 2017
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...22nd December 2017
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...22nd December 2017
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...22nd December 2017
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...22nd December 2017
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...22nd December 2017
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...22nd December 2017
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...
14th December 2017
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...Copyright 2026. All Rights Reserved